Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Thomas Stead NPG x24952

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company

Apprenticed in a merchant's office at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Stead moved into journalism, and in 1871 became editor of the Darlington Northern Echo. In 1880 he went to London as Assistant Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette becoming Editorial Director three years later. In 1885, he started a crusade against child prostitution in a series of articles entitled 'The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon'. To demonstrate the truth of his revelations, he arranged the 'purchase' of the thirteen-year old daughter of a chimney sweep. This campaign forced... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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