#horace warner

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A girl, a cat, and the quiet power of kindness, Spitalfields, London, ca. 1902 - by Horace Warner (1871 - 1939), English

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In this poignant 1902 photograph, Horace Warner captures a young girl sitting barefoot on a stoop in London’s East End

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Adelaide Springett by Horace Warner, 1901.

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“When Adelaide Springett had her portrait taken by Horace Warner in 1900 she was so ashamed of her boots that she would only agree to the photograph if she took them off.

Adelaide Springett was born in February 1893 in the parish of St George-in-the-East, Wapping. Her father, William Springett came from Marylebone and her mother Margaret from St Lukes, Old St. Both parents were costermongers, although William was a dock labourer when he first married. Adelaide’s twin sisters, Ellen and Margaret, died at birth and another sister, Susannah, died aged four. Adelaide attended St Mary’s School and then St Joseph’s School. The addresses on her school admissions were 12 Miller’s Court, Dorset St, and then 26 Dorset St. In 1901, at eight years old, she was recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St. Adelaide Springett died in 1986 in Fulham aged ninety-three, without any traceable relatives, and the London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Social Services Department was her executor”

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T H E   A R T   O F   R E A D I N G Spitalfields, England, c. 1905 Horace Warner

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Spitalfields Nippers by Horace Warner

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Photo by Horace Warner, ca. 1900. From the book "Spitalfields Nippers" to be published on Nov 1, 2014, containing recently discovered photographic masterpieces by Horace Warner, depicting Quaker children in London's East End at the turn of the 20th century.

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