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1061. Talbot Photo 24(1173)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 24(1173)
Title:
[Head of the West Bow, Edinburgh.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of the intersection of a cobbled street made up of several multi-storey buildings; Barron’s Rag Store is on the corner. Photoglyphic engraving. Image size 68 x 73 mm, press imprint size 94 x 127 mm, paper size 112 x 152 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
After 1858
Extent:
1 item

1062. Talbot Photo 24(1178)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 24(1178)
Title:
[Head of the West Bow, Edinburgh.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of the intersection of a cobbled street made up of several multi-storey buildings; Barron’s Rag Store is on the corner. Photoglyphic engraving. Image size 68 x 73 mm, press imprint size 94 x 127 mm, paper size 112 x 152 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
After 1858
Extent:
1 item

1063. Wf1/4620(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4620(4)
Title:
Street view in Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 81' in the negative, and 'Frith. Photo. 1857' on mount. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography 'Without any especial object of historical interest, the accompanying view is exceedingly instructive, as illustrative of the picturesque ruins of Cairo. With the e...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

1064. Wf1/4624(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(5)
Title:
The Ezbekeeyeh, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Street scene, showing Egyptian domestic architecture. 'In the north-west corner of the city is a large irregular tract, called the 'El-Ezbekeeyah,' of 'Birket El-Ezbekeeyah,' named after the Emeer El-Ezbekee. It is nearly half a mile long, and about a thir...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

1065. Wf1/4624(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(10)
Title:
Street view in Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a narrow street lined with balconied houses, towards minarets in the background: 'The street in this view gives an idea of the repose of Eastern life in the Muslim quarters, undisturbed by association with the bustling, anxious European ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

1066. Wq4/6069(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(1)
Title:
A convict's home. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

1067. Wq4/6069(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(2)
Title:
The 'wall worker.' Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of three men, two seated and one standing, drinking in front of an inn. The figure on the right is identified as Cannon and the man in the centre as an 'old-clothes man' fallen on hard times: 'The 'wall working' or fence working...is a system...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

1068. Wq4/6069(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(3)
Title:
Covent Garden labourers. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

1069. 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

1070. 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

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