Victorian London street life in historic photographs / John Thomson, text by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith.

New York : Dover Publications, 1994.

134 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Originally published: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877.

London Nomades -- London cabmen -- Covent Garden flower women -- Recruiting sergeants at Westminister -- Street floods in Lambeth -- Public disinfectors -- Street doctors -- Street advertising -- Clapham Common industries -- "Caney" the clown -- Dealer in fancy-ware -- The temperance sweep -- The dramatic shoe-black -- "Tickets," the card-dealer -- The old clothes of St.Giles -- A convict's home -- The "wall-worker" -- Covent Garden labourers -- Halfpenny ices -- Black Jack -- The cheap fish of St.Giles's -- Cast-iron Billy -- Workers on the "silent highway" -- The street fruit trade -- The London Boardmen -- The water-cart -- "Mush-fakers" and ginger-beer makers -- November effigies -- "Hookey Alf," of Whitechapel -- The "crawlers" -- Italian street musicians -- The street locksmith -- The seller of shell-fish -- Flying dustmen -- Old furniture -- The independent shoe-black.