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"Is your baby fond of you?"

"IS YOUR BABY FOND OF YOU?"
"FOND? FATHER! WHY HE GOES TO
SLEEP ALL DAY ON PURPOSE TO
KEEP ME COMPANY ALL NIGHT!"

HOME
SWEET
HOME

MAY YOUR
TROUBLES
ALL BE
LITTLE ONES

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Childcare, Drawing, Family, FASHION, Fashionable, Father, Grandfather, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE

"When Father says 'Vote' - we all vote!"

"When Father says 'Vote' - we all vote!"TO THEPOLLS[Image: Illustrator Donald McGill's postcards proved hugely popular with seaside holidaymakers.The two postcards of this kind in the collection comment on the passing of the Equal Franchise Act in…

Ah' go lay an Egg

Ah' go lay an Egg –

WIVES
MEET
TONIGHT
VOTES
FOR
WOMEN
WOMEN
YOUR FREEDOM
IS IN QUESTION
STRIKE
MERE MEN

[Image: A woman in a chicken costume is surrounded by three children in chicken costumes. Behind her on the wall is a poster…

Easter Greetings!

Tags: Absent mother, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chick, Chicken, domestic father, Drawing, Family, Fatherhood, Fatigued man, Feminized man, HOLIDAYS, Masculinized woman, Motherhood, Queer, reversed gender role, with children

Her night out at the club

Tags: Absent mother, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, domestic father, Drawing, Family, Fatherhood, Infant, Motherhood, new woman, reversed gender role, Sleeping, Suffering man, Suffrage Meeting, Suffragist, Umbrella, with children

I hear that everyone of note

I hear that everyone of note,
Soon will cast the suffrage vote.

[Image: A sketch of cupid or a cherub sitting on a stool while talking into a telephone. The caption is "I hear that everyone of note, Soon will cast the suffrage vote."] 9x14cm;…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Adultized child, American, C.E. Perry Cupid Cards, Chair, Child, Cupid, Democracy, Election, Family, Nude, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffrage, Telephone, Voting, Wings

I'M NEUTRAL – family

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, labeled No. 2178, 10 designs, "Neutral" Comic.

Cartoon illustration of a man running away from two women who are arguing. The women, one labeled "Friend Wife" and the other "My Mother-In-Law" both say "Am I…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, EMOTIONS, Family, Fear, Husband, Man, Middle class, PRIVATE, Wife, Woman

Letter Carrier

THE SUFFRAGETTE
LETTER CARRIER.

WOULD YOU TRUST YOUR
WIFE AS LETTER CARRIER?
HONEST, WOULD YOU?

[Image: A woman dressed in a fashionable postal worker outfit opens a letter she is delivering. She sports an exaggerated hairstyle. She leads a…

Tags: American, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Dog, Family, FASHION, Hat, Hatpin, Letter, Mail, MARRIAGE, NON-HUMAN, Postal worker, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Puppy, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Wife

Matrimonial Bliss

MATRIMONIAL BLISS

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Childcare, Drawing, Family, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Gender Roles, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Sewing, Wife, Woman

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