The Right Hon. Sir Robert Porrett Collier, Judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Photographer: Lock and Whitfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Oval image; full face head-and-shoulders portrait of the politician and judge Robert Porrett Collier (1817-1886), 1st Baron Monkswell.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, President of the Society of Antiquaries. Photographer: Lock and Whitfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Oval image; head-and-shoulders right profile portrait of Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert (1831-1890), 4th Earl of Carnarvon, politician and President of the Society of Antiquaries 1878-85; Colonial Secretary 1866-67 and 1874-78.
Thomas Hughes, Q.C. Photographer: Lock and Whitfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Oval image; full face head-and-shoulders portrait of the barrister, judge, politician and writer Thomas Hughes (1822-1896), author of 'Tom Brown's school days.'
The Very Rev. Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., Dean of Norwich. Photographer: Lock and Whitfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Oval image; head-and-shoulders portrait, looking to the left, of Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818-1897), Headmaster of Rugby 1849-57 and Dean of Norwich 1866-89.
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...