| Level | Collection |
| Ref_No | SR 1146 |
| Title | Street Life in London |
| Date | 1877 |
| Description | Published copy of volume 1 of Street Life in London (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1877) by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith.
Click on the link below for a digitised version of this document (pdf file, c.68MB). |
| Access Status | Open |
| Extent | 1 volume |
| Admin History | John Thomson was a talented and influential photographer, who had spent ten years travelling in, and taking photographs of, the Far East. On his return to London he joined with Adolphe Smith, a socialist journalist, in a project to photograph the street life of the London poor. The volumes were published in monthly parts as Street Life in London, and were an early example of social and documentary photography. |
| Arrangement | 1 volume. |
| Copyright | No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user. |
| URL | http://lib-161.lse.ac.uk/archives/digital/street_life_in_london.pdf |