Sujet

Making firewood from scrap timber, 1900s. Creator: John Galt.

Légende

Making firewood from scrap timber, 1900s. The workers and their families are in a delapidated yard, with a makeshift corrugated iron roof, surrounded by the scrap timber. Galt came to London in 1890 to work as a missionary for the London City Mission. In the early 1900s he took a series of photographs, mainly of the East End, which he had made into lantern slides to illustrate lectures publicising the work of the Mission. Galt sought to show that though there was great poverty in the East End, the people were not sub-human, as was popularly imagined by the middle-classes, but ordinary folk trying to do their best under difficult circumstances.

Date

1900

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Museum

Notre référence

HRM19A83_388

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,8Mo (1,7Mo) / 33,5cm x 40,2cm / 3957 x 4749 (300dpi)

Mots clés

London England female firewood wood women woman people male child children man men timber metal guy poor poverty century iron run down yard dilapidated concept United Kingdom B&W corrugated Iron black & white black and white B W 1900s 20th century Museum of London TGN photograph John Galt Rev John Galt Galt John

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Utilisation éditoriale uniquement.