Old houses in Aldersgate Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of commercial premises on Aldersgate Street. The shop on the right at number 134, calling itself 'Shakespeare's House,' is the stationer and newsagent E. B. Smith. The newspaper flyers in front of the building deal with events of the Second Afghan War. 'Th...
Old houses in Aldersgate Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of 148-145 Aldersgate Street: 'This group of houses has no history that can be, or at least has been traced. The houses are interesting specimens of street architecture of the beginning of the seventeenth century. They are now about to be demolished.'
Shaftesbury House, Aldersgate Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the façade of Shaftesbury House: 'It was built about 1644 by Inigo Jones. This house has had varied fortunes. From the Earls of Thanet it passed to Anthony Ashley Cooper, afterwards first Earl of Shaftesbury ... At the beginning of the eighteenth...
Old houses in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of private houses in Great Queen Street, which was laid out around 1629. At the time of this photograph, the ground floor of these building had been converted into commercial premises.
Charterhouse — Founder's Tomb. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the monument: 'This costly tomb, built mainly of alabaster, was not completed until 1615. The columns and arch shown in the photograph still convey a sufficient indication of the character of the architecture of the Chapel. The tomb is placed in a ...