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Figure 3.4 ~ "By Torchlight"

This illustration from ‘Living London’ a three-volume work written by George R Sims in 1902-1903, depicts a cocky linklighter, cigarette in mouth and hand resting in his pocket. The worried-looking woman leads her elderly husband by his scarf. He looks uncomfortable, as he is in danger of being either strangled by the scarf or suffocated by the fog. Behind are shadows of the chaos caused by the foggy condition Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library

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