$17.95
Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs—
$17.95
The Story
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.
Reprint of Street Life in London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1877.
Description
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.
Reprint of Street Life in London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1877.
