People
This collection features pictures of a number of inventors, writers, explorers and other prominent figures, mostly from between 1860 and 1912. There are also images of ordinary folk, such as those who lived in slums, or who worked as servants or in the workhouse.
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Portrait of William Shakespeare
David Livingstone, 1870
Charles Darwin, 1882
Thomas Edison, 1904
Charles Dickens at writing desk, 1910
Albert Einstein, during his visit to Berlin, 1931
Chimney sweep, 1884
Doctor Barnardo's child, 1875
Jim Lillywhite and family at home, 1887
Laundry maid, 1899
Five generations of the Betts family, 1899
The Charles Thompson Poor Children's Mission, Birkenhead, 1905
