Olive Malvery serving in a cheap coffee house
In the early 1900s, Olive Malvery, an established singer and reciter of verse, became known for her investigative reports of London's poor, especially women, conducted incognito in a variety of disguises. This picture shows Miss Malvery (left) working as a waitress in a cheap coffee house
Picture No
10424851
Media ID
47525606
Size
3005px x 4483px
(4.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed printed photograph
Date
circa 1907
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