Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Seacole NPG 6856

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Albert Charles Challen

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Seacole owes her reputation to her nursing activities during the Crimean war. Rebuffed probably due to her mixed race when she tried to join Florence Nightingale's nursing sisters, she travelled independently to Balaklava where she helped open the British Hotel halfway between the harbour and British Headquarters. It served as an officers' club, a canteen for troops and a base for her nursing. She remained in the Crimea until July 1856, returning to England after financial difficulties. She published her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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