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

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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...

Children Living in a Camp Between Weedpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California

from U.S. National Archives

  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • Kandice said:
    I love this...it just seems to literally frame their sweet curiosity
  • Evi Boikou said:
    Perfect!!!!
  • (deaf mute) said:
    Stone cold classic. -- http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/05/26/happy-birthday-to-dorothea-lange/ (?)
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called brilliant magic, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called sad world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Woman cleaning her house next to demolition work, photographed by Harry Freeman

from State Library of New South Wales