Statement of a Photographic Man

By Henry Mayhew. London Labour and the London Poor, volume III, 1861.

I’ve been on and off at photographic-portrait taking since its commencement—that is to say, since they were taken cheap—two years…

The Spectator, No. 26

By Joseph Addison. Friday, March 30, 1711.

Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
Regumque turres, O beate Sexti!
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.
Jam te premet nox, fabulæque manes,
Et domus exilis Plutonia…

The Fool of the Forth

By Lady Gregory. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, second series, 1920.

I was told by:

A Woman Bringing Oysters from the Strand:

At the Westminster Pit

By Pierce Egan. Life in London, or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq. and His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom in Their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis, 1821…

Girls’ School Annual Excursion

The Monthly News of the Leeds Mechanics’ Institution and Literary Society, July 1865.

The annual treat to the pupils of the Girls’ School of the Leeds Mechanics’ Institution, which is looked…

Arriving in Japan with Perry

By Bayard Taylor. A Visit to India, China, and Japan in the Year 1853. New York, 1855.

At daybreak, on the morning of July 8, we first made land, which proved to be Cape Idzu, a lofty headland on…

Shanghai in 1853

By Bayard Taylor. A Visit to India, China, and Japan in the Year 1853. New York, 1855.

April 5th, 1853.

The London Street-Folk

By Henry Mayhew. London Labour and the London Poor, vol. 1. London, 1861.

Those who obtain their living in the streets of the metropolis are a very large and varied class; indeed, the means resorted to in order “to…

Spinning Tops

By Professor John Perry. 1916.