Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘General Booth in the Ruins of Martha and Mary’s House at Bethany’ NPG x136277

National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

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

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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