Waif stock illustrations

Vintage engraving of showing street children of victorian London. London Illustrated News, 1886

Sad poor girl with dirty feet sits on floor and is sad because of lack of home and money for food. Homeless helpless child in need of care and protection of social services providing financial support

Cat beggar and help animals cartoon character vector illustration

cute cat doing in and out

Homeless sad man without shelter and beg for help. Need Help text. Shaggy poor man in dirty rags. Vector illustration. Social problem: homeless and unemployment trouble. Financial crisis

Sad poor girl with dirty feet sits on floor and is sad because of lack of home and money for food. Homeless helpless child in need of care and protection of social services providing financial support

Set of Cute cartoon dog series

Vintage engraving from Forster's Life of Charles Dickens in the Household Edition by Fred Barnard. Neapolitan Lazzaroni. The Naples Lazzaroni is an historical term specific to the Age of Revolution that identifies the poorest of the lower class (in Italian, lazzaroni or lazzari) in the city and kingdom of Naples, Italy.

Vintage illustration cartoon by John Leech, Taking Change, Victorian humour, mid 19th Century

The illustration of beggar mouse standing and holding his bag with the sad face

Capital W for a waif child. Published 1860. Source: Original edition is from my own archives. Copyright has expired and is in Public Domain.

sketch image...

Vintage engraving of a Lucifer Match Girl, from Henry Mayhew's The London Labour and the London Poor.