One of several glass negatives of London and other UK locations taken by a family that immigrated to Boston and traveled between the two countries regularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (sad to say that I was woefully outbid on many I wanted from that collection when it was sold recently.)
The blowups below are of the wagon driver checking the security of his load of lumber, a tiny automobile just to its left that is truly a carriage with a motor instead of a horse, and the statue of Richard Coeur de Lion by Marochetti placed here in 1860 (the Victorians loved all that was romanticized in their history through writers such as Sir Walter Scott and Alfred Lord Tennyson). There is also half of a busy little dog exiting on the lower right.
To most of the world, images of Parliament are as iconic as our Capitol in Washington or the Kremlin in Moscow.
