William Booth ('The End of a World Tour: General Booth arrives inside the Albert hall in his motor-car') Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Booth ('The End of a World Tour: General Booth arrives inside the Albert hall in his motor-car') NPG D43013

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Black & White, after Charles M. Sheldon

Booth was apprenticed at thirteen to a Nottingham pawnbroker. Having converted to Methodism, he joined a group of revivalists who conducted religious services in the streets of the city. In 1849 he moved to London. He devoted his leisure to religion and became a lay preacher. Here, he met and married the like-minded Catherine Mumford. In 1865 he and his wife started the Christian Revival Society, later the Christian Mission, in the East End of London. They held evening and Sunday meetings to offer repentance,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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