Street Life in London

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 SR 1146
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: Street Life in London
Date(s)	: 1877
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Thomson | John | 1837-1921 | photographer Smith | Adolphe | fl 1870-1920 | radical journalist | also known as Adolphe Smith Headingly

Context

Administrative/Biographical 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.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Published copy of volume 1 of Street Life in London (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1877) by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 volume.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No copyright restrictions. No documents may be photocopied.

Finding aids:

No further list required.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Given in 1937. Also known as R 1146.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

The National Library of Scotland holds the photographs and papers of John Thomson.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Apr 2001