Sujet

The Cotton Famine: operatives reading the latest news from America in Camp-field free library, 1862 Creator: Unknown.

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The Cotton Famine: operatives reading the latest news from America in Camp-field free library, Manchester, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers reading newspaper accounts of the American Civil War which affected cotton imports to Britain. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A15_138

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

26,7Mo (3,0Mo) / 31,2cm x 21,4cm / 3689 x 2533 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people male library employment job man men arts industry manufacturing art trade guy occupation reading British color industrial poor poverty war century textiles Britain profession newspapers press print wartime concept famine cotton B&W unemployed unemployment engraved engraving textile industry Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black American Civil War nineteenth century shortage shortages The Print Collector Cotton Famine Illustrated London News textile worker ILN textiles worker newspaper Unknown Textile workers 19th-century cotton industry textiles workers