Photography — 1900-1907
Blacksmiths making shovels out of scrap metal, Bethnal Green
A family in the backyard of a house in Bethnal Green, c. 1902. The man in the foreground is making shovels from scrap iron. This was a home industry characteristic of poor households in the East End.
Copy print from a lantern slide.
(PL Copy Neg. No. 11791 ).
- Category:
- Photography
- Object ID:
- IN434
- Object name:
- Blacksmiths making shovels out of scrap metal, Bethnal Green
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Galt, John
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- Production date:
- 1900-1907
- Material:
paper, silver salts
- Measurements/duration:
- H 115 mm, W 160 mm (print), H 202 mm, W 253 mm (mount)
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
Ian Galt
- Image credit:
- —
- Creative commons usage:
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- License this image:
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