Victorian London street life in historic photographs

✍ Scribed by Smith, Adolphe; Thomson, John

Publisher: Dover Publications
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 134
Edition: Revised ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays — by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith — that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.

✦ Subjects

Straßenverkäufer.;Photographie.;Straße.;Alltag.;London.

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