Sujet

The Cotton Famine: school for mill operatives at Mr. Stirling's mill...Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Cotton Famine: school for mill operatives at Mr. Stirling's mill, Lower Mosley-street, Manchester, 1862. Literacy classes for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers. 'While speaking of Hulme, I must mention the institute for men, supported by the Township Relief Committee. An old mill with three floors has been lent for the purpose, where about 400 men are congregated to read and write from nine to six o'clock five days a week, under proper teachers. Two meals a day are provided for them on the foundation floor, while on the two others, supplied with tables and educational requisites, they polish their wits, and chat and smoke in leisure hours. The windows are festooned with coloured calico, the whole building is warmed and lighted, musical instruments are lent by gentlemen, lectures are delivered every evening, and one evening a week is given to music, songs, recitations, and drollery. These men are all in the receipt of relief...Their docility and respect is very touching. The old hard, insolent manner seems to be quite softened down. Their teachers are looked upon with great affection'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A15_147

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

26,9Mo (3,7Mo) / 31,3cm x 21,5cm / 3698 x 2539 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building England employment job education arts light industry manufacturing writing desk desks art trade occupation reading British school color bench benches industrial seating poor poverty war Victorian century textiles lancashire Britain classroom profession newspapers press print literacy furniture wartime concept famine cotton B&W schoolroom unemployed unemployment engraved engraving textile industry Colour VENTILATION Daylight 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 TGN ILN textiles worker newspaper Unknown Textile workers 19th-century cotton industry textiles workers