Postkarte aus den 1900er Jahren eines jungen Bergarbeiters mit flacher Kappe, Lampe, mit mobilem Studio-Hintergrund, von J Roberts, Leeds. Yorkshire, Großbritannien, um 1920
Original real photographic postcard with mobile studio backdrop, taken to his workplace. Photographed by J Roberts, 83 Dewsbury Road, Leeds. Yorkshire, UK. Itinerant photographers in the UK, particularly from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, played a vital role in documenting working-class life by traveling directly to factories, workshops, and communal spaces to take portraits. These photographers set up temporary, makeshift studios in streets, at fairgrounds, or directly at workplaces to make photography affordable and accessible to people who rarely visited conventional, high-end studios There is a 4 digit telephone no on the reverse of the card that can help date it. Telephone numbers in Leeds operated with 4-digit subscriber numbers (local numbers) primarily in the earlier days of automatic exchanges, specifically following the opening of the city's automatic telephone exchange in May 1918. Source: Bobs Telephone File
