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16691. Wq4/6069(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(4)
Title:
Halfpenny ices. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of an Italian ice cream seller, with customers crowded round his barrow: 'Italian ice-men constitute a distinct feature of London life, which, however, is generally ignored by the public at large, so far as its intimate details are concerned....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16692. Wq4/6069(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(5)
Title:
Black Jack. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a man seated on a donkey cart: 'John Walker, commonly known as 'Black Jack,' or 'Darkie,' is one of the army of licensed hawkers who supply the daily wants of the Metropolitan poor...' Smith's text, much of it reproduced as Walker's verbat...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16693. Wq4/6069(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(6)
Title:
Cheap fish of St. Giles's. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of a fisher-seller and his stall, with customers crowded round: 'It has often been remarked that but for our cheap fish supply the poor of London would undoubtedly be reduced to the most acute stages of starvation. Notwithstanding, therefore, the...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16694. Wq4/6069(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(7)
Title:
Cast-iron Billy. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two men, posed at the rear of a horse-drawn omnibus. The figure on the left is, 'William Parragreen, known as 'Cast-iron Billy',' a driver since 1834 and now at the end of his employment with the London General Omnibus Company.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16695. Wq4/6069(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(8)
Title:
Workers on the 'Silent Highway.' Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two bargemen, posed on the deck of a Thames barge.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16696. Wq4/6069(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(9)
Title:
'Strawberries, all ripe! All ripe!' Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a costermonger and his female customer, posed beside his cart of strawberries.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16697. Wq4/6069(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(10)
Title:
The London boardman. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a man carrying an advertising board, bearing the legend 'Renovo.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16698. Wq4/6069(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(11)
Title:
The water-cart. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a metropiltan water cart, used for street cleaning: 'The men employed on the water-carts work according to the state of the weather. Thus, in summer under a hot dry wind, they emerge at early morning from the vestry yards and radiate over ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16699. Wq4/6069(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(12)
Title:
'Mush-fakers' and ginger-beer makers. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a ginger beer maker with his barrow and an itinerant umbrella-repairer ('mush-faker'), posed on Clapham Common: 'According to a rough estimate there must be about 300,000 galons of ginger-beer sold per annum in the streets and immediate ne...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

16700. Wq4/6069(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(13)
Title:
November effigies. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of a fireworks night effigies on a small donkey cart in a London street, accompanied by a man in woman's dress banging a drum: 'The accompanying photograph is that of a nondescript guy, somewhat clumsily built up by a costermonger who lives in t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item