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 ...
'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...
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...
'Hookey Alf,' of Whitechapel. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...
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...
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...