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Postcard, printed, cardboard, monochrome image, black and grey text, white border, produced by the Suffrage Atelier, stylised image depicting an ostrich with it's head in the sand, inscriptions on the sand: 'IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY', sun shining over…

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"In the dim and speculative future"

THIS YEAR–
NEXT YEAR–
SOMETIME–
! ! !

[Image: Postcard designed by Gladys Letcher of the Suffrage Atelier, contains an illustration of Prime Minister Asquith delaying the vote for woman's suffrage.

The…

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MIGHT IS RIGHT.
ASS Manifesto

THE MORAL (?) OF IT.
Jane Bull. 'They're my bricks as much as yours - I helped to buy them with my own money'.
John B. 'I don't care I'm stronger than you, and Auntie says Might is…

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WOMENS SUFFRAGE

REFORM

NO
TAXATION
WITHOUT
REPRESENTATION

[Image: Postcard, printed, cardboard, black image and text hand-coloured in red, green and yellow, white background, produced by the Suffrage Atelier, stylised image of a woman on…

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What a Woman may be, and yet not have the Vote
What a Man may have been, & yet not lose the Vote

MAYOR
NURSE
MOTHER
DOCTOR or TEACHER
FACTORY HAND

CONVICT
LUNATIC
Proprietor of white Slaves
DRUNKARD

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WHAT MAY HAPPEN

TAKE IT AWAY, MY BOY! I'VE NOT BEEN
CONSULTED IN THE MAKING OF THIS
PIE, & IT'S A PRESENT I MUST PAY FOR
I WON T ACCEPT IT!

SERVANTS TAX
L GEORGE
AND CO

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THE CLOSED DOORS

The Mistress: "I cannot pay the tax to keep you when you are ill."

The Doctor: "You are not fit to work, but you are not ill enough to be admitted here."

The Servants: "We have no homes, what are we to do with only 7/6 a…

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INSURANCE MONDAY

Chorus of Housewives: "We never employ extra help on MONDAY"

TAX COLLECTOR

[Image: stylised image of a group of domestic employees outside two houses where the housewives are denying they employ 'extra help' to a 'TAX…

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WIFE: "Sir, can you help me, my husband earns 30/- a week and only gives me 5/- for food for myself and children." LAW: "I cannot help you my good woman, you husband need only keep you alive, that is one of the laws of England."

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The Parliamentary Candidate who thinks "that the women would be sure to Vote for the handsomest man!"
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