A photograph entitled 'Close, No. 18 Saltmarket', taken by Thomas Annan in 1868. Saltmarket Street crosses the High Street in the east end of Glasgow.
A photograph entitled 'Close, No. 18 Saltmarket', taken by Thomas Annan in 1868.
Saltmarket Street crosses the High Street in the east end of Glasgow. Although wider and less rundown than many of the other close areas, these tenements were scheduled for demolition.
In 1868 the City of Glasgow Improvement Trust approached Thomas Annan to take photographs of some of the slum areas of the city prior to demolition. The resulting images are some of the earliest examples of documentary photography.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1987-5201/25
- Materials:
- paper
- type:
- photograph and carbon print
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- National Media Museum, Bradford
