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Covent Garden Labourers
John Thomson (Scottish, 1837-1921)1877
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Covent Garden workers, whose day started before 5 a.m., were divided into job-workers or odd-men—who were paid for each parcel they delivered and thus received little income in the off-seasons—and a much smaller group of salaried workers who were paid year-round to create arrangements and stock and help run the stalls.
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- Title: Covent Garden Labourers
- Creator: John Thomson (Scottish, 1837-1921)
- Date Created: 1877
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 11.4 x 8.6 cm (4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.); Paper: 11.4 x 8.6 cm (4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.); Mounted: 27 x 20.7 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Antiquariat Dr. Jens Mattow, Berlin, Germany), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.53
- Medium: woodburytype
- Series: Street Life in London
- Inscriptions: Stamped in red ink on recto of mount: “COVENT GARDEN LABOURERS.”
- Fun Fact: The wholesale flower market at Covent Garden contained over 500 stands that employed around 4,000 men as growers and deliverymen.
- Department: Photography
- Culture: England, 19th century
- Credit Line: Photography Discretionary Fund
- Collection: PH - British 19th Century
- Accession Number: 2019.53
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