Title

A "City Arab" - from a photograph taken before admission to the Belvedere-Crescent Reformatory, 1856 Creator: Unknown.

Caption

A "City Arab" - from a photograph taken before admission to the Belvedere-Crescent Reformatory, 1856. Homeless boy on the streets of London. 'That the once filthy, vagrant, emaciated, idle, reckless, and obscene, should not only present an appearance of cleanliness and comfort, but actually come to be industrious, prudent, and moral, is a phenomenon well deserving the attention of those who are able to appreciate the difficulty of the process, and the reality of its achievement'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

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Photo12/Heritage Images

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HRM23A57_097

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6,6Mb (533,1Kb) / 4,2in x 6,1in / 1267 x 1826 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male boy boys child children education body bodies British feet foot school color poor poverty Victorian century Britain newspapers press barefoot concept B&W homeless homelessness bare feet engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News Ragged School the body ILN newspaper street child Unknown reform school 19th-century