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Description: | In the back yard of this home in Bethnal Green, John Galt photographed a family man making firewood from stacks of scrap wood. The firewood would have been sold to local families to heat water for cooking and washing. The man holding the baby was a cat's meat man by trade, who sold cheap horsemeat to families for pet food.
As a missionary with the London City Mission, Galt wanted to convey that the working-class East End people were deserving and worthy of salvation, contrary to popular middle-class belief. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Communities Home and Family | Temporal: | 1900-1907 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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