The Poor Law Guardians

T R Williams opened his photographic studios in 236 Regent Street in 1854. Inscription scratched on to mat, bottom left corner, is T.R.W. London

Head and shoulders portrait of an elderly man wearing a stock and jacket.

Portrait of two brothers, one standing and one seated. The standing child has a centre parting and his fringe flopping down, with his right hand in his pocket. The seated one has fair hair in a side parting and one hand visible on his lap. They wear the same clothes, a white collar over a centre buttoned tightly-fitting jacket of check material, and dark trousers.

A stereoscopic daguerreotype taken by Henry Negretti and Joseph Zambra, showing an interior view of the Crystal Palace,Classic Ornamental Sculpture in the Greek Sculpture Gallery. After housing the Great Exhibition in 1851 the Crystal Palace had been dismantled and rebuilt on a site at Sydenham, south east London, reopening in June 1854. The 'Palace of the People' as it became known, was at first a huge success as the world's first 'theme park'.