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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Wq4/6069

1. Wq4/6069

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069
Title:
Street incidents. A series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press. Photographer(s): Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Crown Buildings, 1888, Fleet Street. 1881. Quarto, red cloth binding with decoration on upper board in gilt and black, incorporating title and two images from Thomson's photographs, measuring 284 x 223 mm; pp. 100, lacking front free...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
21 items

2. Wq4/6069(1)

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

3. Wq4/6069(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(2)
Title:
The 'wall worker.' Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

4. Wq4/6069(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(3)
Title:
Covent Garden labourers. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Wq4/6069(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(7)
Title:
Cast-iron Billy. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two men, posed at the rear of a horse-drawn omnibus. The figure on the left is, 'William Parragreen, known as 'Cast-iron Billy',' a driver since 1834 and now at the end of his employment with the London General Omnibus Company.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

9. Wq4/6069(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(8)
Title:
Workers on the 'Silent Highway.' Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two bargemen, posed on the deck of a Thames barge.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

10. 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