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234 photos and 17 illustrations tagged poverty, from 25 members of Flickr Commons.

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• LSE Library 75 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 37 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 30 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 22 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 14 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 14 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 12 photos & illustrations
• British Library 11 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 7 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 3 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 3 photos & illustrations

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Joseph Cruddas

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  It could happen to anyone - and becoming more of a problem these days.. He looks tough and proud and good for him. I'm sure he will have gotten back on his feet again.

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Hi Paul, I recently unearthed a few details about this case and have added them above. Joseph Cruddas appears to have been let off as a first time offender. His companion, William Thompson wasn't so lucky.

• enchanted mine said:

  Up to no good.

William Wade alias Nursay, arrested for stealing money

from North East Museums

• SandyEm said:

  Poor tyke...looks tired and no doubt hungry.

• optimal chicken said:

  This is it - done through need not want.

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  SandyEm [https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyeye] I've added the story relating to this arrest as well as for a later court appearance. It looks like hunger was definitely a factor, as you both suspected.

• optimal chicken said:

  Thanks for that. So sad though.

Children of Darkness

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 5 older comments, and then…
• Jane Friel said:

  There's a sad and dismal feeling from this image, accentuated by the fold lines which make it look like the women and children are behind bars. We stand on their shoulders.

• beachcomber australia said:

  This version gives "1895" - www.census.nationalarchives.ie/exhibition/dublin/poverty_...

• DannyM8 said:

  Tough times, not even a smile from the youngest of the children.

• Suck Diesel said:

  Many young children and a few mothers and a grandmother. The boys would be remove to the adult male section when they were older Families were split up, with different quarters for the male and female population. No mixing was allowed on pain of expulsion. Food included 'stirabout' made in a giant cauldron, and I don't mean Quakers Porridge Oats. People sometimes think that workhouses were set up following the Famine, but they were in existence before then and every major country town seemed to have one. Many of them later became county hospitals.

• Foxglove said:

  at first I thought the picture was taken through a skylight window frame, before seeing the folds in the paper. The "above them" capture focuses the eye and mind on their desperate circumstances.