Sujet

Cat's meat man on a slum street, London, 1900s. Artist: John Galt

Légende

Cat's meat man on a slum street, London, 1900s. The man can be seen on the right, with a cat between the wheels of his barrow. A line of children halfway down the street appear to be staring back at the photographer. 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.
Museum of London

Date

1900

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Notre référence

HRM19A83_392

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,0Mo (1,9Mo) / 31,0cm x 43,7cm / 3659 x 5157 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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