1-192-463 - © Museum of London/Heritage-Images

Mary Phillips selling Votes for Women in London, October 1907. She stands in the road and not on the pavement, else she would have run the risk of being arrested for obstruction. A poster advertising the issue is tied round her neck with a piece of string. Her customer seems to be holding her hand while he takes the paper from her. The other men in the photograph look on with some curiosity, and one is so interested in the scene that he walks across the road, unconcerned by the traffic. Suffragettes are frequently photographed with men staring at them in amazement.