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English: Map of Whitechapel from Charles Booth's Labour and Life of the People. Volume 1: East London (London: Macmillan, 1889). The streets are coloured to represent the economic class of the residents: Yellow ("Upper-middle and Upper classes, Wealthy"), red ("Lower middle class - Well-to-do middle class"), pink ("Fairly comfortable good ordinary earnings"), blue ("Intermittent or casual earnings"), and black ("lowest class...occasional labourers, street sellers, loafers, criminals and semi-criminals")
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Source http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/maxzooms/ne/nej56.html (cropped). Original: Charles Booth's Labour and Life of the People. Volume 1: East London (London: Macmillan, 1889).
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Charles Booth  (1840–1916)  wikidata:Q555978 s:en:Author:Charles James Booth
 
Charles Booth
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Charles James Booth
Description sociologist, statistician and politician
Date of birth/death 30 March 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 23 November 1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Liverpool Edit this at Wikidata Thringstone
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