A convicts' home before 1881

This photograph, taken by John Thomson before 1881, shows a group of men in front of a building. Thomson was a Scottish photographer known for his documentary work capturing the lives of people living in poverty in Victorian London. "A Convicts' Home" is likely one of the images from his book, "Street Life in London", published in 1877, which used candid photography to highlight the social injustices of the era.