Victorian artists were no different. When they saw black people, they wanted to capture them in paint or on film and present them to a predominantly white society. But in exhibiting images of ...

A series of extraordinary black and white photographs of Victorian London have revealed ... nostrums" as free public hospitals grew in the city. Then there was a man known as "The Independent ...

Photographs from the Liverpool City Library and the Records Office ... children's daily struggle to survive in Liverpool slums during the Victorian era. In tattered clothes and without shoes ...

The provocative series of black-and-white 19th-century images show men posing ... to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, by Columbia University librarian Herbert Mitchell.

These fascinating black and white pictures taken by photographer John Thompson show the reality of existence in the 1800s when photography was in its infancy. In 1876 he set out with writer ...