Kurt Hutton
Patrick O'Leary at "The Silver Lady's Kitchen" (from "They had no Work"), 1938
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
25.4 x 18.9 cms
10 x 7 7/16 ins
Series: 3. The Silver Lady's Kitchen. Poverty and Unemployment
11771
Literature
"They had no Work", Picture Post, 14 January 1939, vol 2. no. 2, pp.50-52 (close variant illustrated)
The 14th January 1939 issue of Picture Post magazine included a feature on unemployment entitled 'They Had No Work'. For this article Kurt Hutton took a number of photographs at...
The 14th January 1939 issue of Picture Post magazine included a feature on unemployment entitled "They Had No Work". For this article Kurt Hutton took a number of photographs at the Silver Lady's Kitchen in Trafalgar Square, London, where proprietor Betty Baxter (nicknamed 'The Silver Lady' for her donations of a silver sixpence to her many patrons) offered a free meal to the area's homeless.
This is one of a group of strikingly dramatic character studies of the people there, beautifully lit as though by candle or lamp-light.
Close variant of the published image:
Caption to published image:
"Patrick O'Leary. He was born in Co. Donegal and has now been in London three years. He has worked in Steel works in Lancashire, in the hotel trade as a waiter. The last crisis was a blessing to him, he dug trenches in the Park. Half the men in the queue are oldish; half young. There are few women."
This is one of a group of strikingly dramatic character studies of the people there, beautifully lit as though by candle or lamp-light.
Close variant of the published image:
Caption to published image:
"Patrick O'Leary. He was born in Co. Donegal and has now been in London three years. He has worked in Steel works in Lancashire, in the hotel trade as a waiter. The last crisis was a blessing to him, he dug trenches in the Park. Half the men in the queue are oldish; half young. There are few women."