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July 5, 2012 06:55 pm PDT
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Sewer hunters of Victorian London
In 1851, Henry Mayhew published the four volume London Labour and the London Poor, an influential work of sociology/journalism that documented the life of working class Victorians. He wrote of "bone grubbers," basically dumpster divers seeking food and bits of household detritus, individuals who spent their days seeking cigar-ends for reselling, and scores of others [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/siRYVP-jljA/sewer-hunters-of-victorian-lon.html
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