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Paying a Visit, 1915, (1939). Creator: Abram Arkhipov

Paying a Visit, 1915, (1939). A group of village women in brightly-coloured clothes and scarves, chatting in a sunlit room. Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930) studied in Moscow and St Petersburg, and was a member of the art collective The Wanderers, and of the Union of Russian Artists. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. Painting in the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]

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Salvation Army Social Campaign propaganda poster, London, c.1910 (chromolitho)

XND75970 Salvation Army Social Campaign propaganda poster, London, c.1910 (chromolitho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: In Darkest England and the Way Out.
A broadside on the Salvation Army's scheme to redress the social evils afflicting England; with a lithograph printed in colour, showing in the foreground a stormy sea ("Ocean of Misery") with a ship-wreck, the survivors being pulled from the sea by members of the Salvation Army and guided to an utopian England with solutions for all social problems; with lithographic titles, inscriptions, and Key to the chart in two columns. This chart is a pictorial representation of the benefits envisaged from the application of the Salvation Army's scheme for dealing with the social problems of Darkest England, as described in William Booth's book "In Darkest England and the Way Out" (first publ.1890), in which the chart was published. The ultimate solution to England's problems was emigration to the colonies.); English, out of copyright
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Ladywell Lodge, Lewisham, south east London

Aerial view of Ladywell Lodge, a residential institution for the elderly, near Lewisham, in south east London. The site was formerly St Olave's Union workhouse, designed by Newman & Newman, opened in 1900 to house the aged and infirm. During the First World War, it became Bermondsey Military Hospital and was later known as Bermondsey Institution

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