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List of illustrations

  • Skeleton Ordnance Survey of London and Its Environs
  • A Baloon [sic] View of London
  • Opening of the First Public Drinking-Fountain for the Metropolis on Thursday Week
  • Main Drainage of the Metropolis
  • Stanford's Library Map of London and Its Suburbs
  • Design for The Great Victorian Way
  • Remains of the Fallen House, no. 184, Strand
  • Old and New Buildings in Threadneedle-street
  • Demolition of Hungerford Market: View Looking Towards the Strand
  • The Railway Works at Blackfriars and Opening Towards Ludgate Hill, View from the Temporary Bridge
  • Plan of the Metropolitan Railway
  • The Metropolitan Railway
  • Underground Works at the Junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road
  • The Metropolitan (Underground) Railway
  • The Metropolitan Underground Railway
  • Excavation for the District Railway across Parliament Square alongside the Canning Statue
  • Clearing the site opposite Broad Sanctuary
  • Completing the tunnel along Praed Street
  • King's Cross, Metropolitan Line
  • A Block in Park-Lane
  • Recruits
  • Itinerant Singers
  • London in 1865
  • Holborn in 1861
  • Works at the Holborn Valley Viaduct
  • Holborn Viaduct from Farringdon Street
  • The Thames Embankment Works Between Charing Cross Bridge and Westminster
  • Section of the Thames Embankment
  • The Embankment
  • The Times of Day, 2 Noon – Regent Street
  • Two O'Clock P.M.: Regent Street
  • Scene in Regent Street
  • The Man in the Club Window
  • Effects of the Gas Strike in London
  • Lambeth Gas Works
  • The Frightful Explosion of Gas in Shoreditch. — Ruins of the Houses in Church–Street
  • The Effects of the Late Explosion at Nine-Elms Gasworks
  • Scene from the New Play, The Streets of London, at the Princess's Theatre
  • Plan of Cremorne Gardens
  • Playbill advertising Cremorne Gardens Open Daily
  • Playbill advertising Madame Poitevin's ascent as Europa
  • Little Wonder, no. 4
  • The Cremorne Gardens
  • Cremorne Gardens in the Height of the Season
  • Music sheet cover for Cremorne Galop by Frank Musgrave
  • Music sheet cover Al Fresco Polka by C. C. Amos
  • Music sheet cover for Marriott's Cremorne Quadrilles
  • The Dancing Platform at Cremorne Gardens
  • In Cremorne Gardens
  • In Cremorne Gardens
  • Music sheet cover for The Cremorne Polka
  • Music sheet cover for As Good and a Great Deal Better
  • The Derby Night at Cremorne – Keeping It Up
  • Cremorne As It Will Be Under Future Regulations
  • A New Occupation for Reverend Preceptors
  • Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket
  • The Last of Cremorne Gardens
  • Playbill advertising Duke's Theatre. New Babylon by Paul Merritt
  • While the Police are Employed in Examining the Morality of the Illustrated Literature in the Unprotected Neighborhood…
  • Stanford's Library Map of London and Its Suburbs
  • Old House in Holywell-Street, Partially Destroyed by the Hurricane
  • Holywell Street: Looking Towards the East
  • Holywell Street, St. Clements
  • Holywell Street, Strand
  • Holywell Street
  • Holywell Street, Westminster
  • Old Entrance to Lyon's Inn, Holywell Street, Strand, April 1847
  • Old Houses Between Holywell Street and Wych Street
  • Vickers–Publisher Holywell St Strand
  • Codlingsby
  • House in Holywell St, Strand
  • Holywell Street, Strand 1870
  • One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin
  • Annotated section of Whitbread's New Plan of London
  • Paul Pry, no. 1
  • Interior of the Old Bailey
  • Fragments of obscene clay pipes
  • Plans for the building of Kingsway and Aldwych
  • Temple Bar, in situ
  • Bird's Eye View of the Strand
  • London a Slough of Despond
  • Forlorn Condition of Temple-Bar
  • The Demolition of Temple Bar: Night Scene
  • Temple Bar Reerected at the Entrance of Theobald's Park
  • The New Zealander
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Description: Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
London in the nineteenth century was imagined as a Victorian Babylon. Writers and journalists drew upon the image of the ancient city to invoke the wealth, splendour and refinement of the modern metropolis...
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Mid-Victorian London was shaped by the forces of two urban principles: mapping and movement...
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By the early years of Victoria’s reign, gas lighting had converted London nights into day, and to many writers in this period it seemed that London was the most illuminated capital city in Europe...
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Obscenity was the brash, new product of Victorian London. For many legislators and moral campaigners in the period, indecent books and images were a form of cultural poison...
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Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
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