Victorian London street life in historic photographs
(2013)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla, 2013
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780486319919 (electronic bk.) MWT11606605, 0486319911 (electronic bk.) 11606605
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
Mode of access: World Wide Web