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12. Wq4/6069(11)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wq4/6069(11)
- Title:
- The water-cart. Photographer: Thomson, John
- Scope & Content:
- 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 ...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1876-1877
- Extent:
- 1 item
13. 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
14. Wq4/6069(13)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wq4/6069(13)
- Title:
- November effigies. Photographer: Thomson, John
- Scope & Content:
- 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...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1876-1877
- Extent:
- 1 item
15. Wq4/6069(14)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wq4/6069(14)
- Title:
- 'Hookey Alf,' of Whitechapel. Photographer: Thomson, John
- Scope & Content:
- 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...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1876-1877
- Extent:
- 1 item
16. Wq4/6069(15)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wq4/6069(15)
- Title:
- The 'Crawlers.' Photographer: Thomson, John
- Scope & Content:
- 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...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1876-1877
- Extent:
- 1 item
17. Wq4/6069(16)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wq4/6069(16)
- Title:
- Italian street musicians. Photographer: Thomson, John
- Scope & Content:
- 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...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1876-1877
- Extent:
- 1 item
18. 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
19. 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
20. Wq4/6069(19)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wq4/6069(19)
- Title:
- Flying dustmen. Photographer: Thomson, John
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of two London dustmen with their cart and horse.
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1876-1877
- Extent:
- 1 item