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Brook Street, Ragged and Industrial School – Vintage Photo Print

Brook Street, Ragged and Industrial School, 1853 — antique engraving
Brook Street, Ragged and Industrial School, 1853. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique engraving captures Brook Street, Ragged and Industrial School in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Brook Street Ragged and Industrial School, shown in this wood engraving from the *Illustrated London News* of December 17, 1853, belonged to a network of charities that took in poor and homeless London children. Such ragged schools offered basic lessons alongside training in trades, on the belief that work and discipline could keep young people out of crime. The caption card links the scene to crime and reform schools, reflecting how reformers and the press of the day often viewed these children as a problem to be corrected.

Created / published1853
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1853 Dec. 17, p. 520. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children; Gt. Brit.--Eng.--London--Hist.; Crime...; Reform schools; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,003 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129774

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