A spare shilling in your pocket in May 1906 would have got you into London's hit attraction that season: an exhibition hall filled with haggard "home workers" bent over their trades.
Placards next to each person explained to onlookers their hours, their pay and a few biographical details. No. 15, for instance, made bonnets to support herself and "two weakly children" after she "lost her husband in a very tragical manner".
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