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Early Working Class Photographs
Early working class access photography. Factories had clubs and so forth. You put a penny a week in to the photographic club. When your number was up, or it was a big thing you took two and sixpence to the local studio that you'd saved up in the photography club and had your photograph taken. So there were sort of collective ways of getting a photographic image. It's, i many ways, why school photographs from soe working class board schools in the nineteeth century fascinating.