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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Wq4/6069 Level [40] File

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Wq4/6069(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(14)
Title:
'Hookey Alf,' of Whitechapel. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Wq4/6069(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(18)
Title:
The seller of shell-fish. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of a shellfish seller's stall in the street, with customers gathered round: 'The street purveyors of shell-fish find their principal customers among the poor in such quarters as Whitechapel, Drury Lane, the New Cut, Lambeth; and in the immediate...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

19. Wq4/6069(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(19)
Title:
Flying dustmen. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of two London dustmen with their cart and horse.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

20. Wq4/6069(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(20)
Title:
Old furniture. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

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