Friday, 4 April 2014

John Thomson

A Woodburytype photograph entitled ‘London Nomades’, taken by John Thomson in 1877. Nat Media Mus.
A Woodburytype photograph entitled ‘Covent Garden Flower Women’, taken by John Thomson in 1877. Nat Media Mus.
A Woodburytype photograph entitled ‘Recruiting Sargeants at Westminster’, taken by John Thomson in 1877. Nat Media Mus.
A woodburytype photograph entitled 'Street Doctor', taken by John Thomson in 1877. Nat Media Mus.
A woodburytype photograph entitled 'Public Disinfectors', taken by John Thomson in 1877. Nat Media Mus.
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Lisette Model

Lisette Model, Coney Island Bather, NY (Large woman on the beach), 1942 (ca)
Lisette Model, Gambler, French Riviera ,1937
Lisette Model
Lisette Model Portfolio: Blind Man in Front of Billboard, Paris 68/75
1933-1938 (ca, taken)
Lisette Model
San Francisco, Woman with Veil
1949

Anon / news

Anon (New York?). Source.
'Clacton Disturbances', taken in March 1963 by C Smith for the Daily Herald. Nat Media Mus.
A photograph of a man dressed as Father Neptune lighting a cigarette for Miss Eastbourne, taken in 1933 by Edward G Malindine for the Daily Herald. Nat Media Mus.
A photograph showing a crowd of people waiting to take a snapshot photograph, taken in 1950 by F Greaves for the Daily Herald. Nat Media Mus.
A platinum print photograph entitled ‘Hansom Cab in Trafalgar Square’, by W J Warren, c. 1898. Nat Media Mus.
A photogravure print entitled ‘Newhaven Fishwives at St Andrews’ taken by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, in about 1845. Nat Media Mus.

Jacob Riis

old night: Three young street children huddle together over a grate for warmth in an alleyway off Mulberry Street, Manhattan



Bert Hardy

Maidens in Waiting, Blackpool, 1951 (Bert Hardy/Getty)
Bert Hardy, Children in the Gorbals, Glasgow, 1948

Victorian seaside / entertainment

Buying ice cream. This photo was taken in 1884.
Girls paddling at Yarmouth in 1892. Seaside holidays became popular, thanks to the new railways.
This photo shows holidaymakers on the beach at Hythe, in Kent. Can you spot the bathing machines?
Steam-driven roundabout at the fair on Hampstead Heath in London.
Photographs and captions from BBC Primary History: Victorian Britain

Anon.Beach scene, England, 1910s. Postcard. Source