Quaker photos on show at V&A

Quaker photos have been lent to the V&A Museum of Childhood

The Library at Friends House has lent four photographs to the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood.

The photos will appear in the exhibition ‘On Their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants’. The exhibition tells the story of the estimated 100,000 children forced to emigrate to Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries between 1869 and 1970. Charities, government and religious organisations ran the schemes and claimed to offer the children a better life.

The Library’s photographs were taken by Horace Warner, who was the superintendent of the Sunday school at the Bedford Institute Association. They show children helped by the Institute, and highlight the extreme poverty that Friends were working to alleviate in the East End of London.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Australian National Maritime Museum, National Museums Liverpool and the V&A Museum of Childhood.

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Comments

I am so pleased to read this! The Library being this bridge to the rich collection of objects that it curates besides for books. The RSfF needs to do more with these collections so both the general public can see them as well for our own edification.

By asruth on 19th November 2015 - 14:43

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