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An Easter Prophecy

AN
EASTER
PROPHECY

When hens all join
the suffrage ranks
The Bunnies' little
Easter pranks
Will have to keep up
every day –
Or else who will the
fresh eggs lay?

Tags: "Votes for Women", American, ANIMAL, Bunny, Chicken, Drawing, Easter, Egg, Flowers, Hen, HOLIDAYS, NON-HUMAN, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SYMBOLISM

ARTS

PHOTO
F.D.

COPYRIGHT

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, British, CLASS, Crowd, Education, Man, Middle class, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Procession, PUBLIC, Sign, SYMBOLISM, Woman, Working class

Woman's Franchise

Reproduced by kind permission of the Proprietors of "PUNCH," from the cartoon of January 23, 1918 and published by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 62, Oxford Street, W.1.

Tags: "Votes for Women" flag, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, British, Everywoman, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, NUWSS, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SEX, SOCIAL IDENTITY, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, SYMBOLISM, Victory, Woman

Beacon Lights

Beacon Lights

Frederick Douglass
1817-1895

Paul Laurence Dunbar
1872-1906

Tags: African American, American, Angel, Antislavery, CLASS, Frederick Douglass, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Man, Paul Laurence Dunbar, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Racial uplift, Slavery, SYMBOLISM, Woman

Born One Suffragette

[Image: A stork is sticking his head through a window on the right-hand side of the card. In his beak is a adultized child with a brass bell in her right hand and a Votes for Women placard in her left hand. She is wearing a yellow hat with big red…

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, AGE, ANIMAL, Birthday, Birthright, Flowers, Infant, NON-HUMAN, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Stork, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, SYMBOLISM

Cage of the Unenfranchised

Cage of the
Unenfranchised

Cock-of-
the-Walk.
"Why
cant she
rest
content
in that
nice
cosy
cage"

Criminal, Alien,
Pauper, Lunatic, Woman

Tags: Aliens, ANIMAL, Artists' Suffrage League, Asylum patient, British, Cage, Chicken, Class of voter, Cockerel, CRIMINAL, Disenfranchisement, NON-HUMAN, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SYMBOLISM, Woman

Convicts and Lunatics

CONVICTS
and
LUNATICS
HAVE NO VOTE
FOR
PARLIAMENT

Should all Women
be closed with
these?

SHE, IT IS TIME I GOT OUT OF
THIS PLACE.
WHERE SHALL I FIND THE KEY?

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, Asylum patient, Book, British, Chain, Class of voter, Drawing, Education, FASHION, Fashionable, Key, parliament, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman