Unable to obtain employment, they are driven by poverty into the streets to beg ..., 1848.

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Unable to obtain employment, they are driven by poverty into the streets to beg, and by this means they still supply the bottle. Plate IV of The Drunkard's Chlldren) pub. 1848 (b/w engraving). A man, woman and young girl stand beneath a sign for 'Family Wines and Spirits', poor looking children and a mother walk in the background.

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