Cat's meat man in an East End street, London, c1902. Artist: John Galt

Cat's meat man in an East End street, London, c1902. Artist: John Galt

1-192-000 - © Museum of London/Heritage-Images

Cat's meat man in an East End street, London, c1902. The man with his barrow outside a house, holding the hand of a small child. A lump of meat is on top of the barow. 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.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. John Galt, attributed to: British,Scottish: Photographer

Medium
  1. Photograph

Picture Type
  1. Portrait

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe United Kingdom England Greater London London

  1. 51 30 51 N , 000 05 35 W

Category Hierarchy

Artistic Representations Portraits

Trade & Industry Shops & Markets

Locations & Buildings Other

Society & Culture Wealth & Poverty


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4336x4347
File Size : 55,221kb


Aliases

  1. 11787
  1. 0330000606
  1. 1-192-000
  1. 11787
  1. 1192000
  1. 606

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  1. Strictly for Editorial use only.


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