[Young boy standing by ornate carved chair]
Photograph
[Young boy standing by ornate carved chair]
A ragged-school boy
ca. 1860
Albumen silver print
18.0 x 13.8 cm.
Purchase
1972.0249.0025
Inscriptions recto-(in ink) "photo Rejlander Wolverhampton 1860"
Mounted on the verso is a photomechanical reproduction of this photograph, from the "Picture Post", August 19, 1939, with the printed inscription: "A Ragged School Boy in 1860: Before State Education was introduced. It was children like this that stirred the hearts of Dickens, Shaftesbury, and Dr. Barnardo. In 1844, the Ragged Schools had been started by the Ragged School Union. Sixteen years later, this was the type of child they handled. Children was still working 12 hour hours a day in mines and factories and it was not until 1870 that the Elementary Education Bill was passed".
Mounted on the verso is a photomechanical reproduction of this photograph, from the "Picture Post", August 19, 1939, with the printed inscription: "A Ragged School Boy in 1860: Before State Education was introduced. It was children like this that stirred the hearts of Dickens, Shaftesbury, and Dr. Barnardo. In 1844, the Ragged Schools had been started by the Ragged School Union. Sixteen years later, this was the type of child they handled. Children was still working 12 hour hours a day in mines and factories and it was not until 1870 that the Elementary Education Bill was passed".
