Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'City Honours Late General Booth' NPG x137203

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ernest Brooks, for Central News Ltd

Although the Salvation Army had faced much initial opposition, public opinion regarding Booth and the Salvation Army had changed significantly in the last years of his life. When he died on 20 August 1912, 35,000 people attended his memorial service in Olympia and 5,000 Salvationists marched behind the cortege. Wreaths were sent by King George V and other heads of state. This photograph shows Booth’s horse-drawn coffin outside Mansion House in the City of London and was published in The Year 1912 Illustrated which summarised... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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