Photography on the Common c.1877 27.120/1ao This wharf was the site

This wharf was the site of Southwark Corporation's rubbish depot

Borrowing from the mods

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

The appeal was launched by the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London ('The King's Fund')

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

Photography on the Common c.1877 27.120/1ao This wharf was the siteAn 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,