Photograph

ID:

2014.2/2341y

Production date:

1916

Location:

In Store

Photograph of professional photographer Christina Broom, displaying her camera and samples of her work at the Women's War Work Exhibition, Princes Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, May 1916. This photograph is adhered to page 24 of Broom's cuttings album.  < ...Read more

Photograph of professional photographer Christina Broom, displaying her camera and samples of her work at the Women's War Work Exhibition, Princes Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, May 1916. This photograph is adhered to page 24 of Broom's cuttings album.

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

H 217 mm; L 164 mm (paper), H 207 mm; L 154 mm (image size), H 354 mm; L 257 mm (page)

Last Updated

2020-12-13