Victorian Working Women: Portraits from Life.
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R004873 Ned. Fotomuseum $VR HILEY.M 1979
TitleVictorian Working Women: Portraits from Life.
Author
Edition[editie] 1980 Schwartz ed. of 1979 orig.
Photographer
Iconographic keywords
Place of publicationMaarssen
PublisherGary Schwarz
Year of publication1979
Pagination142
Illustrationsb&w
DimensionsA4
MaterialAnthologie
Document TypeBook
ISBN90-6179-0484
Bibliographic Notesnotes, index, pb;
SubjectGeschiedenis van de fotografie: GB (Groot-Britannië), Geschiedenis en fotografie: GB (Groot-Brittannië)
Geographical keywordGroot-Brittannië
Abstract
[Citing the blurb: ]
"From the 1850s until his death Arthur Munby tirelessly recorded the details of his meetings with working women, describing the work that they did - digging coal, loading barges, climbing down cliffs to collect bait, or slaving day after day as maids-of-all-work. ... Munby bought and commissioned photographs, which coney an added sense of immediacy..."
Chapters :
1. Victorian Working Women ;
2. Portraits From Life ;
3. "Woman's Rights" ;
Notes / Index
[The main source of the documents quoted is the Munby collection of the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.]
"From the 1850s until his death Arthur Munby tirelessly recorded the details of his meetings with working women, describing the work that they did - digging coal, loading barges, climbing down cliffs to collect bait, or slaving day after day as maids-of-all-work. ... Munby bought and commissioned photographs, which coney an added sense of immediacy..."
Chapters :
1. Victorian Working Women ;
2. Portraits From Life ;
3. "Woman's Rights" ;
Notes / Index
[The main source of the documents quoted is the Munby collection of the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.]
| Copy number | R004873 |
| Institution name | |
| Shelf mark | $VR HILEY.M 1979 |