This is pioneering politician Elizabeth McCombs around 1933, the year she replaced her late husband as MP for Lyttelton, becoming New Zealand's first woman MP. McCombs was a lifelong socialist and campaigner for women's rights.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Advisory Committee of Women's Affairs Collection
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