Cleveland Museum of Art
Street Advertising
John ThomsonLinkedCulture matchlcp-9763a45e8186
- Date
- 1876–77
- Medium
- woodburytype
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 455642
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The poster being pasted up by the two men in the late 1870s is an ad for Mme. Tussaud’s London, a museum of wax figures that is still in business today. The image was part of John Thomson’s publication Street Life in London , a group of essays and photographsthat was one of the first published compilations of social documentary photographs. It holds a place of honor in the histories of photography, the book, ethnology, and sociology. Mme. Tussaud’s wax museum in London was founded in 1835.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Sharon & Del Zogg in honor of Wendy Watriss and Frederick C. Baldwin (1929-2021), co-founders of Fotofest, Houston, Texas
- Provenance
- 2006: (John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX) | 2006-2022: Del Zogg, Concord, NC, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art | June 6, 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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