Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth NPG x83802

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

This carefully staged photograph of Morrison working diligently as a government official was made while he was in office as Minister of Transport. Poised to push through his highly anticipated Transport Bill, he radically proposed to create a public corporation in the form of a London Transport Board. Disaster struck when he was forced out of power by the failure of Ramsay MacDonald's government in 1931 and the emergency institution of a National Government, in which Morrison declined to participate. Instead, he returned to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.