This is a collection of images from the London Labour and London Poor, by Henry Mayhew. All of the images are of women and/or girls that are working on the streets throughout the day, including those that are selling fruits on the street to performers on stilts. Mayhew's creation was divdied into 4 volumes published in 1851, mainly broadcasting workers in the 1840's. 

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