Soup kitchen in Manchester, England during the Cotton Famine (Lancashire Cotton Famine), of North West England in 1862. People are shown queuing up for rations, and water. The American Civil war was the catalyst for the famine.

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Soup kitchen in Manchester, England during the Cotton Famine (Lancashire Cotton Famine), of North West England in 1862. People are shown queuing up for rations, and water. The American Civil war was the catalyst for the famine.

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