Images Dated 13th November 2018

Waits at Seven Dials, London, 1853

Group of Christmas Waits or street musicians playing at Seven Dials, London. Until the middle of the 19th century Waits had been town musicians, paid for by their home town or city and performing civic functions. After the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 Waits were abolished, but a rump of Christmas Waits took the street every December looking for money. Date: 1853

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Bethnal-Green Employment & Relief Association 1868 Bethnal-Green Employment &

Labour-yard of the Bethnal-Green Employment and Relief Association, in East London. The stagnation of trade which followed on the commercial crisis of 1866, deprived many thousands of the industrious poor of their ordinary means of livelihood. The effort was originated by Angela Burdett-Coutts, grand-daughter of banker Thomas Coutts, daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, richest heiress in Europe, whoses munificent charties in the east of London were well known. Date: 1868

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Bitten by rabid dog 1870

A hotel guest in Saratoga (California) is bitten by a rabid dog while dressing for dinner, but with great fortitude she cauterises the wound herself with a hot iron. Date: 1870

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