For Your Historians: Street Life in London

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Street Floods In Lambeth [below]

 

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Street Life in London, published in 1876-7, consists of a series of articles by the radical journalist Adolphe Smith and the photographer John Thomson. The pieces are short but full of detail, based on interviews with a range of men and women who eked out a precarious and marginal existence working on the streets of London, including flower-sellers, chimney-sweeps, shoe-blacks,...

 

The book can be viewed [as a PDF] on-line or downloaded:

 

Link 2: Street Life In London:1876-7

 

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