-
Image 627
249 visits
-
Image 626
269 visits
-
Image 622
238 visits
-
Image 621
257 visits
-
Image 620
299 visits
-
Image 619
279 visits
-
Image 618
260 visits
-
Due on Wines
To add to these already excessive rates and taxes, there were endless dues, under all shapes and names, claimed by the ecclesiastical lords. And not only did the nobility make without scruple these enormous exactions, but the Crown supported them in avenging any act, however opposed to all sense of justice; so that the nobles were really placed above the great law of equality, without which the continuance of social order seemed normally impossible.
380 visits
-
Image 601
399 visits
-
Image 599
377 visits
-
Image 598
372 visits
-
Image 596
360 visits
-
Guy Fawkes
The character of Guy Fawkes-day has entirely changed. It seems now to partake rather of the nature of a London May-day. The figures have grown to be of gigantic stature, and whilst clowns, musicians, and dancers have got to accompany them in their travels through the streets, the traitor Fawkes seems to have been almost laid aside, and the festive occasion taken advantage of for the expression of any political feeling, the guy being made to represent any celebrity of the day who has for the moment offended against the opinions of the people. The kitchen-chair has been changed to the costermongers’ donkey-truck, or even vans drawn by pairs of horses. The bonfires and fireworks are seldom indulged in; the money given to the exhibitors being shared among the projectors at night, the same as if the day’s work had been occupied with acrobating
503 visits
-
Image 593
395 visits
-
Photographic Saloon, East end of London
395 visits
-
Image 584
463 visits
-
A view of Petticoat Lane
Immediately connected with the trade of the central mart for old clothes are the adjoining streets of Petticoat-lane, and those of the not very distant Rosemary-lane. In these localities is a second-hand garment-seller at almost every step, but the whole stock of these traders, decent, frowsy, half-rotten, or smart and good habiliments, has first passed through the channel of the Exchange. The men who sell these goods have all bought them at the Exchange—the exceptions being insignificant—so that this street-sale is but an extension of the trade of the central mart, with the addition that the wares have been made ready for use.
513 visits
-
Image 561
390 visits
-
Image 556
260 visits
-
Image 536
294 visits
-
Long Song Seller
“Long songs” first appeared between nine and ten years ago.
The long-song sellers did not depend upon patter—though some of them pattered a little—to attract customers, but on the veritable cheapness and novel form in which they vended popular songs, printed on paper rather wider than this page, “three songs abreast,” and the paper was about a yard long, which constituted the “three” yards of song. Sometimes three slips were pasted together. The vendors paraded the streets with their “three yards of new and popular songs” for a penny.
428 visits
-
Image 533
302 visits
-
Image 528
296 visits
-
Dr Bokanky The Street Herbalist
“Now then for the Kalibonca Root, that was brought from Madras in the East Indies. It’ll cure the toothache, head-ache, giddiness in the head, dimness of sight, rheumatics in the head, and is highly recommended for the ague; never known to fail; and I’ve sold it for this six and twenty year. From one penny to sixpence the packet. The best article in England.”
425 visits
-
Image 526
318 visits
-
Image 478
287 visits
-
Image 477
319 visits
-
Image 475
278 visits
-
Image 474
296 visits
-
Image 471
313 visits
-
Image 470
337 visits
-
Afghan costumes
354 visits
-
Image 468
301 visits
-
Image 464
309 visits
-
Image 461
347 visits
-
Image 460
289 visits
-
Image 459
281 visits
-
Image 458
289 visits
-
Image 457
353 visits
-
Square stool belonging to the King of Bornou.
(Fac-simile of early engraving.
Although he was a convert to Mohammedanism, Yarro evidently put more faith in the superstitions of his forefathers than in his new creed. Fetiches and gri-gris were hung over his door, and in one of his huts there was a square stool, supported on two sides by four little wooden effigies of men. The character, manners, and costumes of the people of Borghoo differ essentially from those of the natives of Yarriba.
290 visits
-
Image 453
312 visits
-
Image 452
329 visits
-
Image 451
309 visits
-
Image 450
341 visits
-
Image 447
317 visits
-
Image 445
332 visits
-
Image 385
299 visits
