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The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard..., 1862. Creator: Unknown.

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The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard, Mottram, near Manchester, 1862. Unemployed mill workers. Engraving of a photograph by Mr. Gothard. 'The distress in the cotton-manufacturing districts is not all evil. Like everything else in the world, it has its light as well as its dark side. The silver lining to this cloud is, of course, the vast amount of self-sacrificing charity which it has been the means of bringing to light, and which makes one's heart leap with joy in the midst of its sorrow for the distressed operatives. Look, for example, at the scene...frequently presented in the courtyard of Mr. John Chapman, M.P. for Great Grimsby...Operatives from the cotton-mills of Broadbottom, Stockport, Hatfield, and other places are continually paying visits to and enjoying the beneficence of this gentleman. Twice a week - namely, on Tuesdays and Fridays - some hundreds of them gather here to receive their breakfast, which is given without limitation; and, in addition, hundreds of females obtain, every Friday, relief for their families, which is given to them in the shape of flour, bread, clothing, &c. It is estimated that from 700 to 1000 are the recipients weekly of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman's beneficence'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A15_319

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Droits gérés

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26,0Mo (2,8Mo) / 33,0cm x 19,7cm / 3895 x 2329 (300dpi)

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England female women woman people child children employment job hunger queue waiting arts industry manufacturing class art trade occupation meal clothes British color morning county industrial dress poor poverty war hungry location century textiles lancashire breakfast Britain profession newspapers press queuing clothing print charity wartime concept famine cotton time of day APPAREL B&W mealtime shawl unemployed unemployment engraved engraving Manchester textile industry shawls Working Class Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W working-class white and black American Civil War nineteenth century shortage shortages The Print Collector Cotton Famine Greater Manchester Illustrated London News social class textile worker TGN ILN textiles worker newspaper Unknown John Chapman Le Matin Textile workers 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing cotton industry textiles workers Warner Gothard Gothard Warner John Chapman