Browse Items · The Suffrage Postcard Project

"Be it ever so homely."

Tags: Absent wife, Adultized child, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chair, Couple, Doll, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Suffering man

[Image: A husband with a sad expression is stilling in a chair in his robe, pajamas and slippers. A young girl with a blue bow in her hair is spilling milk out of a bowl and onto his right foot. A young boy is pulling hard on the belt of his robe…

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Bow, Boy, British, Childcare, Children, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Girl, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PROFESSION, Shoes, Smoking, Toy, Unappealing, Wife, Woman, Working class

"Just by way of a Change": 5

[Image: A fashionably dressed woman is outside her door attempting to put her house key in the lock. Her husband is leaning out of a window above the door in his pajamas. He has a watch in his hands that reads 5:00. There are two milk cans on the…

Tags: Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Clock, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, FOOD, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Inequality, Key, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Milk, PUBLIC, Rights, Shoes, Wife, without children, Woman, Working class, Working man

"Will those in favour of Women's Suffrage please hold up their hands?"

Tags: "Votes for Women" sash, ACTIVITIES, AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Audience, British, Coercion, Couple, Crowd, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Older man, Older woman, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffrage Meeting, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Wife, Woman

A GREAT SALE OF WO-MEN

CLEARANCE SALE

Messrs. HUSBAND & SONS, Un-Ltd.

Begs to announce with very great pleasure

A GREAT SALE OF
WO-MEN

ALL SORTS, SHAPES & SIZES.

Lot 1. – A genuine assortment of Fine, Fat and Plump Suffragettes, warranted to stand all…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Commodified woman, Cooking, Economic slavery, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Intentional misspelling, Labour, MARRIAGE, Marriage market, Satire, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffragette, Widow, Wife, Woman