Source 5

Image caption reads: The meeting on Kennington Common-from a Daguerreotype’. Crowd of people with men in top hats in large open ground with building with large chimney in background. Platform with flags and people standing in centre. Man on horse in foreground.
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Picture entitled: ‘The meeting on Kennington Common-from a Daguerreotype’, 15 April 1848, the Illustrated London News, Catalogue ref: ZPER 34/12.

This shows a Chartist meeting held on Kennington Common, London. There was a platform for speakers to stand and address the crowd. A daguerreotype was an image created by a photographic process popular in 1840s and 1850s.

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