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032-003302801 Subject Street Traders

1. Wq4/6069(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(17)
Title:
The street locksmith. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a locksmith at work at a workbench in a London street.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

2. Wq4/6069(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(4)
Title:
Halfpenny ices. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
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....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

3. Wq4/6069(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(21)
Title:
The independent shoe-black. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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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