Photography on the Common c.1877 27.120/1ao Fleet Street

Fleet Street

This wharf was the site of Southwark Corporation's rubbish depot

Textured paper

whose shelves are stacked with products

The boards had to be removed each night and replaced again in the morning

Photography on the Common c.1877 27.120/1ao Fleet StreetAn itinerant portrait photographer at work on Clapham Common, c. 1877. The photographer is taking a portrait of a nanny and her charge. These were easy subjects as nannies were fond of taking home to their mistresses photographs of the babies entrusted to their care. The wheeled contraption next to the nanny is the photographer's portable darkroom used for developing the photograph on the spot. From a series of 37 photographs published in the book,