Historic Map : Descriptive map of London poverty. North-Western sheet, 1889 - Vintage Wall Art

Descriptive map of London poverty 1889. North-Western sheet comprising part of Hampstead; Paddington (excepting north-west corner) ; parts of St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, Strand, Holborn, and Islington; the whole of St. Giles's and Marylebone; and most of St. Pancras. London. Stanford's Geogl. Estabt. (to accompany) Labour and life of the people. Appendix to volume II. Edited by Charles Boothe. William and Norgate, London; Edinburgh. 1891. | 5 color maps 68x88 or smaller, with 60+23 pages of text and index. Includes 1 map on 4 sheets, and 1 single map 68x88, folded into 21x12.5, mounted on linen in a band attached to the back cover. dated 1889-1891. Detailed town plan to show resident's means in 7 classes, wealth to poverty. Bound in olive cloth covered boards with title "Labour and life of the people : Maps etc. Appendix to Vol. 2." stamped on cover and on spine. Charles Booth's Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London, undertaken between 1886 and 1903 was one of several surveys of working class life carried out in the 19th century. It is the only survey for which the original notes and data have survived and therefore provides a unique insight into the development of the philosophy and methodology of social investigation in the United Kingdom. Booth's four sheet Poverty map colour-coded streets according to the degree of wealth of the inhabitants, ranging from black ('Lowest class'), through shades of blue and purple ('Poor', 'Mixed', 'Fairly Comfortable'), to red ('Well to do') and yellow ('Wealthy'). Booth (1840-1916), owner of the Booth Shipping Line, acted in response to an 1886 Pall Mall Gazette article that claimed that 25% of Londoners lived in poverty.

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