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11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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(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

20. 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

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