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Making shovels from scrap, 1900s. Artist: John Galt
Making shovels from scrap, 1900s. An old man fashions a shovel from a scrap piece of metal in a delapidated yard. Beside, and behind him, stand two women with their children. lt came to London in 1890 to work as a missionary for the London City Mission. In the early 1900s he took a series of photographs, mainly of the East End, which he had made into lantern slides to illustrate lectures publicising the work of the Mission. Galt sought to show that though there was great poverty in the East End, the people were not sub-human, as was popularly imagined by the middle-classes, but ordinary folk trying to do their best under difficult circumstances. © London Museum/Heritage Images
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AR914305
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5151px × 3661px
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HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1900s
20th century
AGED
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Boy
BOYS
Child
concept
delapidated
DIRTY
England
Female
Galt
JOHN
John Galt
LADY
London
London Museum
Male
Man
Men
Monochrome
old
People
Photograph
Poverty
RAGGED
Rev John Galt
run down
Shovel
TGN
TIRED
WEARY
Woman
Women
YARD