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Author/Editor: John Thomson
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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 bla...  read more
 


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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.
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Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486281213
ISBN 13: 9780486281216
Author/Editor: John Thomson
Format: Book
Page Count: 160
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 11 1/4
Publication date: July 1994

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