Charlotte Despard (née French); Anne Cobden-Sanderson with three unknown men
6 of 9 portraits of Charlotte Despard (n?e French)
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Charlotte Despard (née French); Anne Cobden-Sanderson with three unknown men
by Unknown photographer
halftone postcard print, 19 August 1909
2 3/4 in. x 3 7/8 in. (70 mm x 98 mm) image size
Purchased, 1994
Photographs Collection
NPG x45197
Sittersback to top
- (Julia Sarah) Anne Cobden-Sanderson (1866-1926), Socialist and suffragette. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
- Charlotte Despard (n?e French) (1844-1939), Suffragette and social worker. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6566 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (outside 10 Downing Street, London)
Events of 1909back to top
Current affairs
The American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge opens the first British custom-built department store on what was then the 'dead end' of Oxford Street. The revolutionary complex, considered the world's largest at the time, transforms shopping, offering diverse amenities including a post office and a library, and modernises the visual face of retailing through innovative window displays.Art and science
The Frenchman Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to cross the English channel by aeroplane, winning the ?1,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail, and greeted by cheering crowds at Dover station. Bleriot's flight also showed that England was, as H.G. Wells put it, from a military point of view 'no longer an inaccessible island'.In dance, Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Sergey Diaghilev's innovative Ballets Russes.
International
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is founded in America to campaign for the rights of African Americans. One of the oldest and most influential civil rights movements, it was founded by a diverse group of individuals from mixed backgrounds, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Henry Moscowitz and William English Walling.The Selig Polyscope company sets up the first film studio in Los Angeles.
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