Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of the exterior of the lodging house in Drury Lane, 'now still frequented by hungry convicts or ticket-of-leave men,' with figures receiving food at the window. The proprietor Mr Baylis, whose history is given by Smith in the text, can be seen in...
Covent Garden labourers. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of labourers in the market at Covent Garden, posed with the wicker baskets using for carrying produce: 'the accompanying photograph represents a group of labourers who are in the service of Mr. Dickson, the well-known florist. Thei...
'Hookey Alf,' of Whitechapel. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of men, women and children, posed in front of a public house in Whitechapel: 'Even new paint and a new roof have failed to destroy the quaint look of this inn, while the groups generally seated outside contemplating the broad, busy road...
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of a street-corner secondhand furniture shop, with two women posed on the pavement and goods laid out on the pavement: 'At the corner of Church Lane, Holborn, there was a second-hand furniture dealer, whose business was a cross between that of a ...