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Covent Garden Labourers
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About this work
Covent Garden workers, whose day started before 5 a.m., were divided into job-workers or odd-men—who were paid for each parcel they delivered and thus received little income in the off-seasons—and a much smaller group of salaried workers who were paid year-round to create arrangements and stock and help run the stalls.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineStreet Life in London: Covent Garden Labourers, 1877. John Thomson (Scottish, 1837–1921). Woodburytype; image: 11.4 x 8.6 cm (4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.); paper: 11.4 x 8.6 cm (4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.); mounted: 27 x 20.7 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Discretionary Fund, 2019.53
