LSE POVERTY OS PROOF MAP West/East Ham - Plaistow - Upton Park - Greengate 1928
[Ordnance Survey] Edition of 1919 - Essex [new series] Sheet NLXXXVI. 6. West Ham - Plaistow - Upton Park. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Director of the “New Survey of London Life and Labour” (surveys undertaken 1928-1931). The "New Survey" was a comprehensive update of Charles Booth’s original “Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London” (1886-1903). Smith had been an assistant on Charles Booth’s original Inquiry. Provenance: This map was hitherto in the collection of the London School of Economics Geography Department, and as such bears all the hallmarks of having been a preliminary working map utilised during the preparation of the “New Survey of London Life and Labour”, published in 1931 by that institution. A digital copy of the relavant final published map from the "New Survey" covering the area shown in the map for sale can be provided upon request to the buyer. Type: A linen-backed 1/2500 scale Ordnance Survey "Poverty map" working proof sheet preparatory to the "New Survey of London Life and Labour" (published 1931), manually hand-coloured, updated and annotated to show relative levels of poverty and wealth on a street-by-street basis. The colours used correspond with those deployed in the maps published with the "New Survey". A copy of the colour key that was originally published with the final "New Survey" itself will be provided with the map. An original unpublished “poverty map” working proof sheet, apparently preparatory to the “New Survey of London Life and Labour” (1928-1931, directed by Hubert Llewellyn Smith, published by the London School of Economics and Political Science), which updated the earlier work of Charles Booth. This early 20th century 1/2500 scale Ordnance Survey map sheet has been manually overpainted in colours to indicate relative levels of wealth and poverty; the colours used correspond with those deployed in the final published “New Survey” maps. This sheet is one of a collection of similar m
Size: 12659px × 8392px
Location: London & Booth
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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