The Last Load - Gleaners waiting at the gate

The Last Load - Gleaners waiting at the gate

Digitized film strip
Photograph

Thomas Richard Williams

Maker
British, 1824–1871

The Last Load - Gleaners waiting at the gate

From Scenes in our Village


ca. 1855
Albumen silver print with applied color
7.0 x 6.4 cm. (each) on 8.3 x 17.5 cm. mount
Gift of Charles Carruth
1981.7747.0002
Inscriptions mount recto-(blindstamp) "The London Stereoscopic Company 313 Oxford
St."
mount verso-(printed) "Scenes In Our Village." "No." "The Last Load -
Gleaners Waiting At The Gate." "No rake takes here what heaven to all
bestows; Children of want! for you the bounty flows; And every cottage
from the plenteous store Receives a burden nightly at its door."

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