Social Class Collection (#7)

Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Upper Ten", 1864. Creator: Unknown
Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Upper Ten", 1864. Crowds at a polling station on 8 November, ...the day of the Presidential election

Ruins of the village of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, after the late fire, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Ruins of the village of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, after the late fire, 1864. We give a View of the ruins of a part of the village of Billinghay, which was destroyed by fire on Friday

The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Mr. Göschen... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Mr. Goschen, Member for the City, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins

The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Richard Grosvenor, 1864 Creator: Unknown
The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Richard Grosvenor, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins

The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Abercromby, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: Lord Abercromby, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins

The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: the Marquis of Sligo, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The movers and seconders of the addresses in both Houses of Parliament: the Marquis of Sligo, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins. The Most Hon

Yard Man, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Yard Man, between c1915 and c1920

Otto Hue, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Otto Hue, between c1915 and c1920

Working-men's hall lately erected at Eastbourne, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Working-men's hall lately erected at Eastbourne, 1864. We present a View of the Workmen's Hall which has lately been built, at the expense of Mr. W

Mrs. N.E. Green & "Caesar", between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service. Mrs. N.E
Mrs. N.E. Green & "Caesar", between c1915 and 1918. Mabel E. Harlow, the wife of Edward Howland Robinson "Ned" Green with dog Caesar and sign reading: "Belgian war dog

"Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", by the late C. R. Leslie...South Kensington Museum, 1864. Creator: W Thomas
"Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", by the late C. R. Leslie, R.A. in the Sheepshanks Collection, South Kensington Museum, 1864. Engraving of a painting

Earl Russell at the opening of the North London Working-men's Exhibition, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Earl Russell at the opening of the North London Working-men's Exhibition, [Agricultural Hall, Islington], 1864. Foreign Secretary Russell said that the working classes of London were

The opening of the People's Park, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The opening of the People's Park, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, 1864. Chancellor of the Exchequer and future prime minister William Ewart Gladstone speaking to the crowd

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Högtorp…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Hogtorp - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. The future King Edward VII in Scandinavia

Christmas Entertainment to the Inmates of the Greenwich Union-House, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Christmas Entertainment to the Inmates of the Greenwich Union-House, 1864. Through the liberality of Mrs. Angerstein, wife of the member for Greenwich

Festival at Hartford Mill, Oldham, given by Mr. Platt to 8000 of his workpeople, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Festival at Hartford Mill, Oldham, given by Mr. Platt to 8000 of his workpeople, 1864. In celebration of the attainment of his majority by Mr. Henry Platt, son of Mr

Free opening of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens on the anniversary of the late... 1864. Creator: Unknown
Free opening of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens on the anniversary of the late Prince Consort's birthday, 1864....the Horticultural Gardens at South Kensington

St. Paul's Working Men's Church, Birkenhead, 1864. Creator: Unknown
St. Paul's Working Men's Church, Birkenhead, 1864. This church was opened on the 10th December by the Bishop of Chester, and contains on the ground floor upwards of 600 sittings

Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Picnic at the Uspenskii Mine, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Interior view of the book warehouse of the Society for Primary Education in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Interior view of the book warehouse of the Society for Primary Education in Krasnoyarsk. The first room. 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei

Group photo of Shchegolev brothers with their wives, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Group photo of Shchegolev brothers with their wives, 1860. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

On the hunt in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk. 1810. Creator: Unknown
On the hunt in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk, 1810. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Peasants - chaldons of the city of Krasnoyarsk, 1880. Creator: Unknown
Peasants - chaldons of the city of Krasnoyarsk, 1880. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

A barrack for family workers in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. Creator: Unknown
A barrack for family workers in Krasnoyarsk, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Paired photo portrait of Mamomnovs Mamakra Avdeevna and daughter Ekaterina Yakovlevna, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Paired photo portrait of Mamomnovs Mamakra Avdeevna and daughter Ekaterina Yakovlevna, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late

The gates of a snow town near the village of Ladeyskoye, Krasnoyarsk District, 1800. Creator: Unknown
The gates of a snow town near the village of Ladeyskoye, Krasnoyarsk District, 1800. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

Natalia Petrovna Bologovskaya - wife of the governor of Yenisei province, 1880. Creator: Unknown
Natalia Petrovna Bologovskaya - wife of the governor of Yenisei province, 1880. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

Part of a drawing room in the house of Evdokia Petrovna Kuznetsova, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Part of a drawing room in the house of Evdokia Petrovna Kuznetsova, 1890 This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Sending peasant settlers to the place of permanent residence, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Sending peasant settlers to the place of permanent residence, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Members of the board of the Vladimir shelter, 1894. Creator: Akselrod
Members of the board of the Vladimir shelter, 1894. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Family P.N. Konovalov during a holiday at the dacha (in Tarakanovo), 1890. Creator: Unknown
Family P.N. Konovalov during a holiday at the dacha (in Tarakanovo), 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Photo portrait of the merchant of the 2nd guild Vasily Ivanovich Karnakov, 1890. Creator: Akselrod
Photo portrait of the merchant of the 2nd guild Vasily Ivanovich Karnakov, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

Nakhalovka Sloboda in Krasnoyarsk, 1896. Creator: Unknown
Nakhalovka Sloboda in Krasnoyarsk, 1896. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Picnic in the village of V-Usinsky, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Picnic in the village of V-Usinsky, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Settlers at their home, 1880. Creator: Unknown
Settlers at their home, 1880. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

At the dacha of Yuri Matveeva, 1897. Creator: Unknown
At the dacha of Yuri Matveeva, 1897. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Paired portrait of a young woman and child, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Paired portrait of a young woman and child, 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Group photo of Yakov Mamontov's family, 1883. Creator: Unknown
Group photo of Yakov Mamontov's family, 1883. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Group photo of the family of merchant Egorov Alexander Mikhailovich, 1880. Creator: Unknown
Group photo of the family of merchant Egorov Alexander Mikhailovich, 1880. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Group photo: sisters, wife and sisters of the wife of the merchant GV Yudin, 1895. Creator: Unknown
Group photo: sisters, wife and sisters of the wife of the merchant GV Yudin, 1895. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

L.K. Telyakovsky - Governor-General of Yenisei province with his family and guests at...1890. Creator: Unknown
L.K. Telyakovsky - Governor-General of Yenisei province with his family and guests at a dacha in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk, 1890

A group of pupils and teachers of the Krasnoyarsk Women's Gymnasium on a summer walk...1890. Creator: Unknown
A group of pupils and teachers of the Krasnoyarsk Women's Gymnasium on a summer walk in the forest near Krasnoyarsk with teacher Krasnozhenova M.V, 1890

Belgian Reservists leaving Gare de l'Est [i.e. Gare du Nord], 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Belgian Reservists leaving Gare de l'Est [i.e. Gare du Nord], 1914. Belgian men in front of the Gare du Nord, Paris, France, at the beginning of World War I

Lenin addresses the units that go to the front to fight the white Poles, Sverdlov Square, Moscow, May 5
529223 Lenin addresses the units that go to the front to fight the white Poles, Sverdlov Square, Moscow, May 5, 1920 (b/w photo); Universal History Archive/UIG

Spanish Smiths, 1881. Creator: Ernst Josephson
Spanish Smiths, 1881

Portrait of J C de Brunett, Consul-General of Russia to Amsterdam, c.1850. Creator: Anon
Portrait of J C de Brunett, Consul-General of Russia to Amsterdam, c.1850

Portrait of a Man in 17th-century Clothing, 1750-1799. Creator: Anon
Portrait of a Man in 17th-century Clothing, 1750-1799

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"Exploring Social Class Through Art: A Glimpse into the Struggles and Aspirations" In this captivating collection of artworks, we delve into the intricate tapestry of social class, unraveling its complexities and shedding light on the lives of individuals across different strata. Each piece tells a unique story, offering us a glimpse into the struggles and aspirations that defined their existence. The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture by Vera Mukhina stands tall in Moscow, symbolizing the unity between laborers and farmers during Soviet times. This powerful black-and-white photograph captures their strength amidst societal divisions. Moving to 1872 Westminster, Gustave Doré's The Devils Acre transports us to a notorious slum area where poverty reigns supreme. With meticulous detail, Doré exposes the harsh reality faced by those trapped in destitution while challenging society's indifference towards their plight. Hubert von Herkomer's Our Village takes us back to c1890 when rural life was marked by simplicity and close-knit communities. Here we witness an idyllic scene where neighbors come together, transcending social barriers through shared experiences. An Elegant Lady in a Rowing Boat presents an intriguing contrast as it portrays opulence against a serene backdrop. This oil painting invites contemplation on how wealth can shape one's position within society while highlighting leisurely pursuits enjoyed exclusively by the upper classes. Gustave Doré returns with Limehouse Dock in 1872, revealing another facet - industrialization versus manual labor. Amidst towering cranes and bustling activity, workers struggle for survival amidst unforgiving conditions imposed upon them. Juxtaposing time periods further is The Crane on the Antwerp quay by the frozen Scheldt from 1622—an ode to maritime commerce that fueled economic disparities during Europe's Golden Age. It reminds us how trade shaped hierarchies within societies centuries ago.