York & Son
'Photographs of London'
[cover-title], c.1900. Folio album, green cloth, front cover lettered ‘York & Son’s Photographs of London' in gilt, 141 albumen print photographs, 10.5 x 17.6cm, captions and catalogue numbers in the negative, slip-mounted on doubled thick-paper leaves, photographs include street scenes (Fleet Street, Hyde Park Corner, Oxford Street, Cheapside. Blackfriars Bridge, London Bridge), all heavily populated with traffic and pedestrians and with shop signs clearly legible, Windsor Castle and environs, Bank of England, Mansion House, the Royal Exchange, Wellington Arch, the Monument, St Paul's, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, views on the Thames, St Pancras station interior, crowds and cyclists in Hyde Park, Albert Hall, Trafalgar Square, Victoria & Albert Museum ('The Imperial Institute'), British Museum, the Tower of London, Beefeaters, High Holborn, the Old Bailey, the Crystal Palace, and more. Binding rubbed a few areas of wear, water damage to rear cover, pastedown and blank
An extensive and stylistically uniform visual record of London life at the turn of the last century. York & Son were one of Britain's largest producers of glass lantern slides, but albums exhibiting their work in this format appear to be very uncommon, and this example may have been produced as a trade catalogue.