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He kept journals from 1859 to 1898 that recorded the details of his interactions and in them he expressed his desire for the strength and care of a working woman. He was an amateur artist, and his diaries contain sketches of working women. He collected hundreds of photographs of such subjects as
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women, particularly those who performed hard physical labour. He strolled through the streets of London and other industrial cities and approached working women to ask about their lives and the details of their work, while noting their clothes and
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