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so interesting!! very nice picture

Débora Wait for the companion picture!

Amazing!

I really wonder how life was in this birdcage.

The book/journal/box in her hand has caught my attention. Is it one of those that Victorian ladies used to write their secrets in? Looks expensive in any case!

Maybe The Irish Times? Ambrose Congreve was born on 16 January 1832.3 He was the son of John Congreve and Hon. Louisa Harriet Dillon.2 He married Hon. Alice Elizabeth Dillon, daughter of Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock and Hon. Caroline Elizabeth Spencer, on 26 July 1866.1 He died on 15 March 1901 at age 69. He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the 2nd Life Guards.3 In 1871 High Sheriff. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of County Waterford.3 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for County Waterford.3 He lived at Mount Congreve, County Waterford, Ireland

It could be a legal document? A list of evictions planned for the next two years and the likely benefits in shooting rights that might accrue? Nah! I'm just being cynical today!

Constant Thank you for that. And the most recent Ambrose Congreve died just last year, aged 104!

Swordscookie Oh, you are cynical today! Think it definitely was a newspaper...

the companion is just as interesting as the lady! So nice to see these old "present moments"!

This should prove interesting with a "who" and a "Where" to be found! I am interested too and will follow with bated breath! Mary

beachcomber australia There's another photo of Rev. Skuse in the catalogue with the by now infamous "ZIK 382".

Well here's his church: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,539814,544426,10,7

And here's the house: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,540066,544914,11,9

Streetview won't go there but we have the overhead: www.google.ie/maps/@51.6533194,-8.8666907,173m/data=!3m1!1e3

Albert Kahn has a very similar autochrone (colour photograph) of the damage done to a shop in Piccadilly Circus by the Suffragettes in 1911. Heroes to the last ! The damage was aimed at shops who supplied the king (by appointment to HRH).

It seems almost certain that this photo and www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163047923 both show the aftermath of the same event, which had occurred on March 1, 1912. It may also be that the photo in this collection titled "London - arrest of a suffragette" is also showing a consequence of the same event, but there isn't enough context to say. The event was the subject of a news story on page 8 of The Times for the following day. Its title was "Suffragist Outrages | Wholesale Window Smashing in London | Attack on the Prime Minister's House". Included in the story were express references to the smashing of shop windows in Bond Street and in Regent Street. This photo is showing shops in Bond Street, while the other photo I mentioned in the first paragraph is showing a shop in Regent Street, as was pointed out by the third commenter on that photo.

In the US the women were suffragettes, but in the UK they were called suffragists

revans1953: Thanks for the comment. Interestingly, the term suffragist has also become the accepted subject term in our cataloging here at the Library, rather than suffragette. In the case of this photograph, we have transcribed an original caption, and since that caption was written by an American agency for the U.S. audience, it reflects the term in common American parlance at the time.

revans1953 says: In the US the women were suffragettes, but in the UK they were called suffragists Actually the militants (the ladies who broke the law and fought back) were called suffragettes on both sides of the pond. The suffragists were a different group altogether who stayed on the right side of the law and thought that debating the issue would win the day. The window smashing would have indeed been carried out by suffragettes, probably members of the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) who's slogan was 'Deeds Not Words'