Professional painters and artists participating in the Pageant of Women's Trades and Professions

Professional painters and artists 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 contingents of female workers carrying emblems symbolic of their work, marching for over half an hour into the Albert Hall to join the Conference delegates. As depicted in the background of this image many of the women also carried banners with the slogan 'Bread Winners demand the Vote' or 'Wage Earners demand the vote' and 'Taxation without representation is Tyranny.' The artist in the centre of this image, wearing the white coat is probably the Suffragist Louise Jopling.

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.