2-361-791 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Robert Owen, Welsh-born industrialist, philanthropist and socialist, 1851 (1956). Owen's (1771-1858) New Lanark Mills in Scotland, which he bought in c1799, featured pioneering social and industrial welfare programmes. From the National Portrait Gallery, London. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.