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John Thomson

Sufferers from the Floods

1877
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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Annual tidal overflow of the Thames River flooded less prosperous areas of London, leaving behind “a trail of misery . . . and a damp, noxious, fever-breeding atmosphere.”

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