Making shovels from scrap, 1900s. Creator: John Galt.

Making shovels from scrap, 1900s. Creator: John Galt.

1-192-007 - © Museum of London/Heritage Images

Making shovels from scrap, 1900s. An old man fashions a shovel from a scrap piece of metal in a delapidated yard. Beside, and behind him, stand two women with their children. lt 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

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe United Kingdom England Greater London London

  1. 51 30 51 N , 000 05 35 W

Category Hierarchy

Trade & Industry Occupations

Locations & Buildings Other

People Other

Society & Culture Wealth & Poverty


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5151x3661
File Size : 55,248kb


Aliases

  1. 11791
  1. 0330000613
  1. 1-192-007
  1. 11791
  1. 1192007
  1. 613

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  1. Strictly for Editorial use only.


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