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Close, No. 118 High Street, from Photographs of the Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow 1868-1877

1878

Thomas Annan

Not on view

Local officials in Glasgow hired photographer Thomas Annan to document the abysmal living conditions in the city's working class neighborhoods of the 1860s and '70s. In this image, Annan's lens focuses on a group of some twenty-five women and children crowded into a narrow alley replete with dirty, crumbling walls, tattered laundry hanging out to dry, and an open sewer.

Photographer: Thomas Annan
Title: Close, No. 118 High Street, from Photographs of the Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow 1868-1877
Date: 1878
Object Type: Photograph
Medium: Carbon print from wet-collodion-on-glass negative
Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 15 1/16 in. (51.1 x 38.3 cm) Image: 11 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.9 x 22.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of John H. Rubel
Accession Number: 1985.100.3