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CAMBRIDGE — “Black Chronicles II” is simple to describe. It consists of somewhat more than 100 recently discovered, or rediscovered, photographs of people of color in Victorian England.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SLUMPED bare-foot in dirty alleyways and wearing rags, children living in Victorian ... had been since the Black Death. It was under these dire circumstances that Glasgow City Council implanted ...
While many appear to depict quaint scenes of rural idyll, others also show the abject poverty which gripped the lives of many people the Victorian and Edwardian eras. open image in gallery ...
Victorian Britain ... appears white-skinned in portraits by Degas. The exhibition, which runs until 8 January at theManchester Art Gallery, shows that black subjects were cherished by artists ...