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52 photos and 18 illustrations tagged poor, from 14 members of Flickr Commons.

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• The Library of Congress 12 photos & illustrations
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• National Library of Medicine 10 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 9 photos & illustrations
• British Library 8 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 3 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 3 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 3 photos & illustrations
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 2 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 2 photos & illustrations

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Children playing in demolished houses, urban renewal, Surry Hills, photographed by Harry Freeman

from State Library of New South Wales

• covid convict said:

  nla.gov.au/nla.obj-460114541/view?sectionId=nla.obj-48016... - 'Death of a Slum', Pix, 20th May, 1950...

South Sea Islander camp in Queensland

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  By the late 19th century, Australia had already spent a century dispossessing its first inhabitants, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who had been here for over 65,000 years. It also controlled every aspect of their lives: where to live, whom to marry, and most importantly, where to work. Dispossession created a workforce that could be exploited for the pitiful price of cheap rations: flour, salt, and sugar. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were placed in work camps and were sent out to labour for the “new owners” of their traditional lands. They were legally prohibited from receiving their pay in hand; instead, their employers paid it to the government to hold it on trust. By the second half of the 19th century, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were increasingly reluctant to work for colonisers under the harsh terms on offer, and began to rebel against this system. In 1863, Robert Towns, a British merchant wishing to start a cotton plantation, needed cheap labour. There were men “willing” to work as indentured labour for a pittance, he was told, in the South Sea Islands to the east, including the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Easter Island and Gilbert Islands. Towns brought his first shipment of South Sea Island indentured labourers – the “sugar slaves” – to Queensland in 1863. Source: afsee.atlanticfellows.org/blog/2018/amanda-young-australi...

Arme kinderen voor een raam / Poor children looking through a window

from Nationaal Archief

• 8 older comments, and then…
• Luca Napoli said:

  Thanks for sharing. A piece of story.

• Janus said:

  beautiful and impressive photo

• spikelover said:

  mooie foto...

• NIONG said:

  POOR

• arstakes said:

  A shot with so much feelings...just amazing! Thanks for sharing.