Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield; Barbara Drake (née Meinertzhagen) with two others Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield; Barbara Drake (née Meinertzhagen) with two others NPG P1292(49)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Unknown photographer
Drake was particularly close to her aunt Beatrice Webb through their shared interest in women's working rights and their membership to the Fabian Society and Fabian Women's Group. Writing reports for the Women's Industrial Council between 1913 - 1915 on women's working conditions, Drake's inquiries into women working in the retail and service industries were published in the Women's Industrial News. In 1917 Women in the Engineering Trades was published and her research became focused on the exploitation of women during the wartime effort... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










