Victorian child

A true heartbreaker of an inscription. This photo, with Minnie dressed in her finest and wearing those delightful shoes, must have been taken shortly before she caught the disease that killed her. One must wonder if this is one of those images where parents, knowing that a child had been exposed to something potentially fatal, rushed him or her off to the photography studio to have a memento of a vital and healthy child, instead of a post-mortem photo. (Yes, this did happen.) Minnie M…

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Back in the day when a shilling was a weeks wages, when even the 'Pure' (Dogs Dung) was a valuable source of income, poor Victorian 'street' people were living by whatever means they could. No homes, no income and no benefit system for support. Thieving, cheating, prostitution and even child selling, were sometimes the only options these unfortunate souls had. Working the most degrading jobs in the world, in the drains, the sewers, cesspits and mortuaries for little or scant reward. ~from…

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These are what mothers and their little girls looked like over 100 years ago.

The 1870s rogues gallery of offenders, some as young as 11, includes thieves and pickpockets who stole anything from cash to clothes and even odd pieces of metal.