Picture No | 12688645 |
Date | 1912 |
Description | Women making flowers 1912 |
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Women from the John Groom's Crippleage and Blind Mission making artificial wild roses to be sold at Alexandra Day. In 1912, Alexandra Day celebrated the 49th anniversary of Queen Alexandra's arrival in England and the proceeds of the selling of these wild roses, Queen Alexandra's favourite flower, would go to charity as part of a "Day of Help for those in Pain" in her honour.
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Source | Illustrated by Samual Begg in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 22 June 1912, page 957 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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