Libby Hall’s Dogs Of Old London

Libby Hall has gathered possibly the largest collection of dog photography ever made by any single individual. Spitalfields Life has posted a large selection of her photos of dogs of Old London. Each one is lovely.

This girl and her dog were photographed many times for cards and are
believed to be the photographer’s daughter and her pet.

The first dog to be buried here was run over outside the gatekeeper’s lodge,
setting a fashionable precedent, and within twenty-five years the gatekeeper’s
garden was filled with over three hundred upper class pets.

"The complete social range is present in this selection, from the dogs of the workplace to the dogs of the boudoir, although inevitably the majority are those whose owners had the disposable income for studio portraits. These pictures reveal that while human fashions change according to the era and the class, dogs exist in an eternal universal present. Even if they are the dogs of old London and even if in our own age we pay more attention to breeds, any of these dogs could have been photographed yesterday."