Street Life in London: Covent Garden Flower Women, 1877. John Thomson (Scottish, 1837-1921). Woodburytype; image: 11 x cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); paper: 11 x cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); mounted: x cm (10 11/16 x 8 3/16 in.). Thomson’s collaborator, reporter Adolphe Smith said that “The familiar sight of a poor woman holding a pale child in her arms and offering modest violets to the pedestrian, is pregnant with a poetry which rags, and dirt fail to obliterate.” The jobs, which were passed down between generations, required worked long hours and yielded a meager income.

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