The Street Locksmith

Name: The Street Locksmith
Brand: John Thomson, 1877
Price: 25.99 GBP
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A street locksmith's stall on Whitechapel Road. Londoners lost so many keys that the stallholders bought up the lost ones and sometimes sold them back to their owners for a shilling. Locks and keys here went for about half what a shop would charge, and the locksmiths restocked from the dust yards where the rubbish men dumped everything they collected. The man in the photo hadn't touched a drink since he was sixteen and was father to sixteen kids. John Thomson took this in 1877 for Street Life in London.

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

Paper: Enhanced matte poster paper, 189 g/m² and 10.3 mil thick, with a smooth, non-glare finish that suits the original sepia tones.

Sizes: 12×16 in (30×40 cm) or 18×24 in (45×60 cm).

Printing: The photo is printed edge to edge with no border. Prints are sent unframed, so they'll fit a standard frame of the same size.

The photo: Taken by John Thomson for Street Life in London (1877), written with journalist Adolphe Smith. The original is in the public domain and held by LSE Library.
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