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Broom, Christina, 1862-1939


  • [In 1903, a self-taught novice photographer, Christina Broom, turned to photography as a business venture to support her family; from this modest beginning she was to emerge as Britain's acknowledged pioneer woman press photographer. Unconventionally for women photographers of the time she took her camera to the streets and recorded arresting and historically important images of Suffragettes, sporting events, royal occasions and World War I soldiers and developed a significant enterprise in picture postcards which she published from her home in Fulham, London, until her death in 1939.]

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    • Livingston, Christina, 1862-1939

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    • Birth Date

        1862-12-28

    • Death Date

        1939-06-05

    • Associated Locale

        Chelsea (London, England)

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Photographers

      Suffragists

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      • Sources

        • found: Sparham, Anna. Soldiers and suffragettes, 2015:title page (The photography of Christina Broom)
        • found: Wikipedia, 11 September 2015:Christina Broom entry (Christina Broom (née Livingston; 28 December 1862-5 June 1939) was a Scottish photographer, credited as "the UK's first female press photographer." Christina Livingston's parents were Scottish though she was born at 8 King's Road, Chelsea, London, the seventh of eight children. Her father was Alexander Livingston (1812-1875), a master bootmaker and her mother Margaret Fair (1826-1884). She married Albert Edward Broom (1864-1912) in 1889. They had a daughter Winifred Margaret, born 7th August 1890. In 1903, following the failure of the family ironmongery business and other business ventures, Christina borrowed a box camera and taught herself the rudiments of photography. She set up a stall in the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace, selling postcards of photographs that she had taken. She maintained this stall from 1904 until 1930.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Broom
        • found: National Library of the Netherlands via VIAF, 11 September 2015(access point: Broom, Christina, 1863-1939)

      • General Notes

        • [In 1903, a self-taught novice photographer, Christina Broom, turned to photography as a business venture to support her family; from this modest beginning she was to emerge as Britain's acknowledged pioneer woman press photographer. Unconventionally for women photographers of the time she took her camera to the streets and recorded arresting and historically important images of Suffragettes, sporting events, royal occasions and World War I soldiers and developed a significant enterprise in picture postcards which she published from her home in Fulham, London, until her death in 1939.]

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        • 2015-09-11: new
        • 2015-09-19: revised

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