Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs

Victorian London Street Life in Historic PhotographsClassic 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. Reprint of Street Life in London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1877.

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