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Lantern-carrier London (Volume I) (1841)

A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right.‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle lig [...]

Keywords: people, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-12-15

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Watchmen London (Volume I) (1841)

Two men in long winter cloaks walk the night-time streets of London, each carrying a lantern. One also has a hand-bell and both have spears. The image is credited to “Dekker, 1616.”Stow says that in Q [...]

Keywords: people, watchmen, lanterns, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-12-19

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Street Music—1789. London (Volume I) (1841)

Dayes, who published a collection of street views about 1789,has given us the group which concludes our paper. Here we have the organ, the triangle, the tambourine, and the hurdy-gurdy,—each striving [...]

Keywords: musicians, street scenes, poverty, busking, people, instruments, animals, children, dogs, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-23

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