Christina Broom at the British Women's War Work Exhibition, May 1916

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 glued to page 24 of Broom's personal 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 documenting the women's suffrage movement in London, street views, sporting events, military figures and the activities of the Household Division, particularly during the First World War period, and the Royal Family.