Lower-class posters & prints

Gebon no zu [Picture of the lower class] Utamaro Kitagawa

Gebon no zu [Picture of the lower class] Utamaro Kitagawa

At the Theatre, In the Pit Thomas Rowlandson

The School of Sorrow, 1895 Luigi Rossi

Residents of a tenement, Henry Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Anonymous

Residents of a tenement, Henry Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Anonymous

The Strict School Master, 1868 William Jabez Muckley

No Sir We Do Not Believe in Working-Class Education Postcard Anonymous

Second Class - The Parting 'Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.', 1855 Abraham Soloman

George Washington High School Anonymous

Poor Box at the Opera, 1830 Louis Leopold Boilly

Extremes Must Meet; or, A Bit of Practical Science John Tenniel

Tyranny Charles Samuel Keene

George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906), English secularist W&D Downey

The Squire and the Gamekeeper or The Demurrer, c.1860 James Lobley

The Steerage Alfred Stieglitz

Grisettes and Workers Constantin Guys

Second Class - The Parting. 'Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.' Third Class - The Parting, Railway journey,... Abraham Solomon

Flower Girls Gustave Dore

Obstructives Joseph Swain

Poster for National Cotton Picking Contest Anonymous

The Crumbs from the Rich Man's Table: Distributing the Remains of the Feast to the Poor in the Guildhall the... Samuel Begg

Car Man and Coal Heaver, 1848 Paul Gavarni

What Will Become of the Servant-Gals? George du Maurier

London Dock Strike, 1889 English Photographer

Seasonable Advice - Put by for a Frosty Day Anonymous

Mayhew's Great Exhibition of 1851: The First Shilling Day - Going In, 1851 George Cruikshank

The Soldier's Return Thomas Faed

Prince Albert's model dwelling for the labouring classes, 1851 Unknown

The Stonebreaker, 1868 George William Mote

Beer Street William Hogarth

Ground plan of Prince Albert's model dwellings for the labouring classes, 1851 Unknown

The Mouthful of Bread, study for 'Charity', 1892-1908 Fernand Pelez

One Good Turn Deserves Another. The Working Man Enlightening the Superior Classes Anonymous

French Revolution. Execution of clerics and prisoners by members of the Paris Commune Anonymous

Illustration of Slums in Lower New York Anonymous