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5 January 2015

Stand

Christina Broom was the first woman to have a career as a press photographer and she and her husband ran a stall near Buckingham Palace selling her photographs. The archive has been acquired by the Museum of London and there is to be an exhibition in June. Here she is on her stand at the Women’s War Work exhibition, London in May 1916.

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