John Thomson, Sufferers from the Floods
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Discretionary Fund, 2019.52 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
John Thomson

Sufferers from the Floods

1877

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
woodburytype
Dimensions
11.5 × 9 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-190373

Smith and Thomson decided to photograph the once-prosperous Rowletts in front of the rag shop that they owned and lived in to show that the floods caused long-term financial losses and health problems that drove even the middle class into poverty. The woman with the baby lived in the house next door; her entire family suffered constant colds and rheumatism from the persistent dampness.

Provenance

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Discretionary Fund, 2019.52

Registry history

  • 1877 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs

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