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Contents

Commerce
1Shops: Exteriors
2Shops: Interiors
3Markets
Socializing
4Socializing in cafes and restaurants
5Socializing in bars and clubs
Wartime
6The civilian impact of War
Photographers
7Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow
8Archibald Burns: Edinburgh
9The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London
10Adolphe Terris: Rénovation de la Vieille Ville de Marseille (1862)
11Charles Marville: France: Paris
12Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris
13Arnold Genthe: Chinatown
14Sam Cheney Partridge (photographer) & W. B. Tyler (printer): Chinatown, San Francisco
15Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
16Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
17Berenice Abbott: Changing New York
18Henri Salesse: Rouen - Housing conditions (MRU) (1951)
19W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project
20Anders Petersen: Café Lehmitz

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