Picture No | 10132221 |
Date | 1862 |
Description | QUAKER SOUP KITCHEN |
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The 'cotton famine' created by the American civil war causes great hardship in the Lancashire mill district : the Quakers run a soup kitchen to feed Manchester's distressed.
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Source | Engraving in the Illustrated London News, 22 November 1862 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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