Street Advertising
Medium
woodburytype
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Sharon & Del Zogg in honor of Wendy Watriss and Frederick C. Baldwin (1929-2021), co-founders of Fotofest, Houston, Texas
Accession Number
2022.78
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.