'Mush-fakers' and ginger-beer makers. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...
Italian street musicians. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...
The seller of shell-fish. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...
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 ...
The independent shoe-black. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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.