Journalists at The Pageant of Women's Trades and Professions

Maker:

Broom, Christina

ID:

IN1356

Production date:

1909-04

Location:

In Store

Journalists participating in the Pageant of Women's Trades and Professions, 27th April 1909. The Pageant was organised as part of the International Woman Suffrage Conference that place in London between 26th and 27th April 1909. The Conference included delegates from over 20 nationalities, the English representation being led by Millicent Fawcett. The pageant of 'voteless' professions and tradeswomen took place on the evening of Tuesday 27th April and comprised, as depicted in this image, contingents carrying emblems symbolic of their work marching for over half an hour into the Albert Hall to join the Conference delegates. As reported in the Votes for Women newspaper the following week that 'From the women doctors in their blazing scarlet hoods, to the pitbrow women in their shawls, every branch of women's work was represented' in the Pageant.  < ...Read more

Journalists participating in the Pageant of Women's Trades and Professions, 27th April 1909. The Pageant was organised as part of the International Woman Suffrage Conference that place in London between 26th and 27th April 1909. The Conference included delegates from over 20 nationalities, the English representation being led by Millicent Fawcett. The pageant of 'voteless' professions and tradeswomen took place on the evening of Tuesday 27th April and comprised, as depicted in this image, contingents carrying emblems symbolic of their work marching for over half an hour into the Albert Hall to join the Conference delegates. As reported in the Votes for Women newspaper the following week that 'From the women doctors in their blazing scarlet hoods, to the pitbrow women in their shawls, every branch of women's work was represented' in the Pageant.

Christina Broom, trading as Mrs Albert Broom, was a pioneering professional photographer and is considered to be the UK's first woman press photographer. Broom's extensive photographic work spans the activities of the suffrage movement in London, street views, military figures and actions of the Household Division including the First World War period, sporting events and the Royal Family. < Hide

Measurements

1/2 plate

Materials

glass

Last Updated

2024-03-14