Street Photography of 19th Century London

John Thomson (1837-1921) took documentary photographs of everyday people on the streets of London. They were not spontaneous like street photographs today. Photography during that time was a calculated and time intensive process with bulky cameras and glass plate negatives.
These photographs offer an interesting insight into everyday life in London in the late 1800s.

Book cover for John Thomson & Adolphe Smith “Street Incidents” (London, Sampson Low,
Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881)
[Street Incidents]
1881

Photographer: John Thomson
Street Doctors
[Street Life in London]
1877
Woodburytype
London School of Economics - Digital Library

Photographer: John Thomson
The Cheap Fish Of St. Giles's
[Street Life in London]
1877
Woodburytype
London School of Economics - Digital Library

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