London Street Arabs at play indoors

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From London Street Arabs by Dorothy Tennant (1855-1926) published in 1890 the same year as she married the explorer Henry Morton Stanley so it was published under the name Mrs H M Stanley. The illustration is untitled & my first thought was it may have been some sort of Sunday school, but in the book she talks of taking the children into her home & teaching them to play the piano so this might well be Dorothy with the ragamuffin families in her own home.

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Size: 2991px × 2167px
Location: London, England, UK
Photo credit: © Historical Images Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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