Sujet

Making shovels from scrap, 1900s. Creator: John Galt.

Légende

Making shovels from scrap, 1900s. An old man fashions a shovel from a scrap piece of metal in a delapidated yard. Beside, and behind him, stand two women with their children. lt 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_396

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,0Mo (1,6Mo) / 43,6cm x 31,0cm / 5151 x 3661 (300dpi)

Mots clés

London England female women woman people male boy boys child children man men old aged guy tools tool tired poor poverty century run down dirty yard dilapidated concept shovel weary United Kingdom B&W RAGGED 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.