Flying Dustmen
John Thomson
1881
Medium
Woodburytype, plate 19 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 8.8 × 11.4 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.2 cm (10 15/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
221865
About the Artist
John Thomson · 1837–1921
John Thomson (1837–1921), a pioneering Scottish photographer, was born on 14 June 1837 in Edinburgh as the eighth of nine children to William Thomson, a tobacco spinner and trader, and Isabella Newlands.) After schooling in the early 1850s, he apprenticed with a local optical and scientific instrument manufacturer, where he mastered the principles of photography, completing his training around 185...