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1. Wq4/6069

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069
Title:
Street incidents. A series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press. Photographer(s): Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Crown Buildings, 1888, Fleet Street. 1881. Quarto, red cloth binding with decoration on upper board in gilt and black, incorporating title and two images from Thomson's photographs, measuring 284 x 223 mm; pp. 100, lacking front free...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
21 items

2. Wq4/6069(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(15)
Title:
The 'Crawlers.' Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of an impoverished women, seated on steps in front of a doorway and holding in her arms an infant she has been entrusted to look after for a friend: 'Huddled together on the workhouse steps in Short's Gardens, those wrecks of humanity, the Cr...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Wq4/6069(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(16)
Title:
Italian street musicians. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a young Italian harpist, posed in the street with an audience of youths and two men: 'Other children come over to England to join their families, or the more enterprising members of their families, who have found out how to make money in o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

7. Wq4/6069(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(17)
Title:
The street locksmith. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a locksmith at work at a workbench in a London street.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

8. 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

9. Wq4/6069(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(21)
Title:
The independent shoe-black. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a young boot-black, polishing a customer's shoes in the street, with a group of onlookers watching the proceedings in the background.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

10. 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

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