Image: Poverty map old nichol 1889
Description: Poverty map of Old Nichol slum, East End of London, showing Bethnal Green Road, from Charles Booth's Labour and Life of the People. Volume 1: East London (London: Macmillan, 1889). The streets are colored to represent the economic class of the residents: Yellow (“Upper-middle and Upper classes, Wealthy”), red ("Lower middle class - Well-to-do middle class"), pink ("Fairly comfortable good ordinary earnings"), blue ("Intermittent or casual earnings"), and black ("lowest class...occasional labourers, street sellers, loafers, criminals and semi-criminals")
Title: Poverty map old nichol 1889
Credit: http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/maxzooms/ne/nej34.html (cropped). Original: Charles Booth's Labour and Life of the People. Volume 1: East London (London: Macmillan, 1889).
Author: Charles Booth
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