num_pages: 134
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.
language: English
title: Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs
titlecomplete: Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs
genres: 19th Century, Photography, History, British Literature, Nonfiction, Art, Victorian
ratings_count: 107
publisher: Dover Publications