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Description: | A woodburytype photograph entitled 'Sufferers from the Flood', taken by John Thomson in 1877. The photograph is taken from 'Street Life in London' (1877), a series published in 12 parts with written commentaries by Adolphe Smith. Smith wrote of this photograph 'The sufferings of the poor in Lambeth, and in other quarters of the Metropolis, caused by the annual tidal overflow of the Thames, have been so graphically described as thoroughly to arouse public sympathy. Feelings of apprehension and dread again and again rose with the tides, and subsided with the muddy waters as they found their way back into the old channel or sank through the soil.' | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph woodburytype | Temporal: | 1877 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Thomson, John (1837-1921) | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/23012 | Go to resource |
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