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- catalog abstract "This book is illustrated entirely by contemporary photographs. The earliest pictures belong to the 1840s, when Fox Talbot's camera was just in time to record the Old Hungerford Suspension Bridge and the erection of Nelson's Column. The latest show the London of seventy years further on, when the motor-car had begun to supplant the carriage, the hansom, and the horse-drawn omnibus. These photographs illustrate every aspect and district of London. The emphasis is on the streets, and the people and traffic in them, rather than on the buildings. Here are pictures of a vanished population of street traders and entertainers: the muffin men, umbrella menders, ginger-beer sellers, sweeps, dancing bears and organ grinders, flower girls, rabbit sellers, and Punch-and-Judy shows which were an everyday feature of London street life. The pictures in which they appear are often strikingly beautiful, though whether they are so from the conscious intention of their photographers it might be hard to say.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b1776265.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Edward VII, 1901-1910 Pictorial works.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Pictorial works.".
- catalog coverage "London (England) History 1800-1950 Pictorial works.".
- catalog created "[1969]".
- catalog date "1969".
- catalog date "[1969]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1969]".
- catalog description "The city -- Westminster -- Street traders -- Street entertainers -- Kensington and Chelsea -- How the rich lived -- The parks -- The East End -- How the less rich lived -- South of the river -- The railways -- The Thames -- Markets -- The southern suburbs -- The western suburbs -- The northern suburbs.".
- catalog description "This book is illustrated entirely by contemporary photographs. The earliest pictures belong to the 1840s, when Fox Talbot's camera was just in time to record the Old Hungerford Suspension Bridge and the erection of Nelson's Column. The latest show the London of seventy years further on, when the motor-car had begun to supplant the carriage, the hansom, and the horse-drawn omnibus. These photographs illustrate every aspect and district of London. The emphasis is on the streets, and the people and traffic in them, rather than on the buildings. Here are pictures of a vanished population of street traders and entertainers: the muffin men, umbrella menders, ginger-beer sellers, sweeps, dancing bears and organ grinders, flower girls, rabbit sellers, and Punch-and-Judy shows which were an everyday feature of London street life. The pictures in which they appear are often strikingly beautiful, though whether they are so from the conscious intention of their photographers it might be hard to say.--From publisher description.".
- catalog extent "1 v. (chiefly illus.)".
- catalog hasFormat "Victorian and Edwardian London from old photographs.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Victorian and Edwardian London from old photographs.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studio book".
- catalog issued "1969".
- catalog issued "[1969]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Viking Press".
- catalog relation "Victorian and Edwardian London from old photographs.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Edward VII, 1901-1910 Pictorial works.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Pictorial works.".
- catalog spatial "London (England) History 1800-1950 Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "914.21/03/80222".
- catalog subject "DA683 .B53 1969".
- catalog tableOfContents "The city -- Westminster -- Street traders -- Street entertainers -- Kensington and Chelsea -- How the rich lived -- The parks -- The East End -- How the less rich lived -- South of the river -- The railways -- The Thames -- Markets -- The southern suburbs -- The western suburbs -- The northern suburbs.".
- catalog title "Victorian and Edwardian London from old photographs.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".