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    In my last post, I raised the issue of photographing the slums and slum dwellers. Some photographers ventured into the slums with a social purpose – temperance advocates, educationalists, child protectionists, housing reformers -while others saw the street characters as picturesque studies for amateur photographic competitions. Liverpool’s slums were famous, and it is not surprising [...]

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    Great research Colin and interesting to see colour, even if it is crudely added later as we tend to think of those dreary and drab 1800s pics of slum life as being without colour and it's hard to imagine it amongst the poverty.

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