Front cover of "The Children's' Treasure" 1 January, 1872. The shoe polishing boy shares his hot baked potato with the young match-seller on the Victorian streets of London. Match boy, street seller, baked potato-seller, blacking boy, match-sellers, Lucifer, matches, boots polished, London Labour, London street-sellers, begging, poor, poverty, street vendors, shoe shine, street-sellers, working the streets, child labour, Bryant & May, Day & Martin Blacking, boot black, juveniles, shoe black, Shoe shiners, Uniforms, Boys
Victorian Christmas greeting card published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner showing that carol singers are not always welcome. street musicians, banjo, fiddle, violin, street singers, bat, snow, winter, caterwauling, pour cold water on,
Victorian Christmas, greeting card, De La Rue & Co, Illustrated Proverb, street seller, hawker, street cries, toys, Christmas presents, snow, balloons, lanterns, jack in a box, masks, Christmas tree, dolls, cuckoo, children, pedlar, peddler, cuckoo,
Victorian, Working Children, Crossing Sweeper, Christmas, greeting card, the needy, street children, nuisance, sweeping the streets clean, little boy, street beggar, childhood, street crossings, soliciting gratuities, clean sweep, child labour, London poor, pauper,
cities; centre; central; United Kingdom; UK; Great Britain; GB; Europe; European; EU; British; British Isles; Scotland; Scottish; Edinburgh; city; weather; cold; winter; wintery; snow; snows; first; 2010s; people; December; snap; warnings; severe; freezing; snowfall; daily; life, post, postal, service, Royal Mail, red, postbox, letters, cards, posting, letter, card,
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UK SCOTLAND Edinburgh -- 06 Dec 2010 -- Hoping it gets there for Christmas...Jean Wallice, 64, posts Christmas cards into a postbox in Great Junction Street in Leith during heavy snow which fell in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK today (Monday). Continuing bad weather has caused problems for many, though buses managed to keep running and daily life continued more or less as normal with many schools opening as normal -- Picture by Jonathan Mitchell | Lightroom Photos
Three chromolithographed greeting cards circa 1870 to 1890. French trade card circa 1890. Costume. Dress Children. Toys. Puppets Marionettes Icon Slapstick Puncinlla Polichinelle Booth
Early Victorian Birthday card. A small folded greeting card with a lace paper border, circa 1860s. ephemera, goodwill messages, anniversary, many happy returns, personal communication, Greeting Card industry, good wishes, card manufacturers,
Humorous Victorian embossed scrap/die-cutentitled "Charge of the Light Brigade". An army of match sellers (the "light brigade") pesters a rich or upper-class person on the Victorian streets of the city.; ; ephemera, Juvenile Street-Traders, Lucifer, matches, London street-sellers, begging, poor, poverty, street vendors, working the streets, child labour, Bryant & May, cigar, smoking, tobacco, cigarette, comic,
Victorian; trade; holly; seller; pedlar; mistletoe; Christmas; decoration; red berries; ephemera; evergreens; chromolithography; Winter; snow; door step selling
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In Victorian times in large towns and cities a considerable trade was carried on in "Christmasing, " or in the sale of holly and mistletoe for Christmas decorations. Every room would have the cheery decoration of holly, its bright, glazed leaves and red berries, reflecting the light from fire or candle.
Victorian Christmas greeting card of black infant being mesmerised by a spider. Dated 1883 by sender.Depiction of black people in the Victorian period.; ; ephemera, childhood, fashion, arachnid, fear, fright, terror, baby, young child, horror, shock, dark-skinned peoples,