A photograph entitled 'Close, No. 128 Saltmarket', taken by Thomas Annan in 1868. The photograph shows a narrow close behind number 128 Saltmarket Street in Glasgow. The shadowy figure of a child stands in one of the doorways of the tenement building.
A photograph entitled 'Close, No. 128 Saltmarket', taken by Thomas Annan in 1868.
The photograph shows a narrow close behind number 128 Saltmarket Street in Glasgow. The shadowy figure of a child stands in one of the doorways of the tenement building.
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.
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1987-5201/32
- type:
- photograph
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- credit:
- National Media Museum, Bradford
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
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