Cleveland Museum of Art
Covent Garden Labourers
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- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodburytype
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 325424
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. The wholesale flower market at Covent Garden contained over 500 stands that employed around 4,000 men as growers and deliverymen.
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- Credit line
- Photography Discretionary Fund
- Provenance
- (Antiquariat Dr. Jens Mattow, Berlin, Germany) | March 4, 2019: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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