Photography on the Common c.1877 27.120/1ao Pancras church tower

Pancras church tower

The boards had to be removed each night and replaced again in the morning

Targeted specifically at the armed forces it would have been posted up in mess rooms and other army buildings

ISBN: 978-0745343693

Borrowing from the mods

Photography on the Common c.1877 27.120/1ao Pancras church towerAn itinerant portrait photographer at work on Clapham Common, c. 1877. The photographer is taking a portrait of a nanny and her charge. These were easy subjects as nannies were fond of taking home to their mistresses photographs of the babies entrusted to their care. The wheeled contraption next to the nanny is the photographer's portable darkroom used for developing the photograph on the spot. From a series of 37 photographs published in the book,