K Somewhere All posts by this member | 1 of 2 Tue 29th Nov 2011 11:15am Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:560 I purchased an interesting, nicely produced print of the soup kitchen set up in 1861 to aid starving silk weavers. It's a facsimile of a double-sided page form the Illustrated London News, and has a piece about the weavers on the reverse below which is also a piece about the run up to the American Civil War - real history. I love artefacts like this!
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Old soup kitchen print | |
K Somewhere All posts by this member Thread starter | 2 of 2 Tue 29th Nov 2011 1:24pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:560 Here's the text on the rear:
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Old soup kitchen print |