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Votes for Women

[Image: Woman holds a gold flag while wearing a banner which reads: "Votes for Women."]; 9x14; print.

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, "Votes for Women" sash, American, Bow, Drawing, FASHION, Fashionable, Flag, Flowers, Hat, Pin, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Suffrage, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffrage Memorabilia, Votes for Women, Woman

[Image: Three women with angry expressions on their faces enter a room as one man knocks over a table with a drink and playing cards, another man hides under the table, and the last man runs away. The text below the image reads: "Son help mere man"]…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, Bewilderment, British, British suffragette, Cards, Chair, Domineering woman, Drawing, Drinking, EMOTIONS, Gambling, INTERNATIONAL, Man, Surprised Man

We want the vote

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Drawing, FASHION, Flowers, Monstrous, Purple & Green Suffrage Color Scheme, RACE, Racism, Unappealing, Unfashionable, unwomanly, Woman

How the deuce did I know she was a suffragette?

Tags: Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, British suffragette, Dating, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Man, NATIONALITY, Rejection, Relationship, Suffragette, VIOLENCE

"This is our first task"

Deep rooted prejudice
Votes for women

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, Drawing, Flowers, Hat, INTERNATIONAL, Labor, NATIONALITY, Prejudice, PRO-SUFFRAGE, shovel, Votes for Women, Women's Social and Political Union, Working woman, WSPU

Merry Christmas and Votes for Women in 1910

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Bow, British, Child, Christmas, Drawing, Drum, Girl, HOLIDAYS, Music, Musical Instrument, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE

Home, Sweet Home

Striking examples of a suffragette's "HOME" if they have any home.

[Produced as propaganda for the anti-women's suffrage campaign. This example of anti-suffragette 'hate mail' was sent to the headquarters of the Women's Social and Political Union…

Tags: Angry man, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Chair, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Fight, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Kitchen, Man, Music, Physical violence, Punch, VIOLENCE, Woman

The Prehistoric Argument

No 1 Cavern Villas

The Primeval Woman: "Why can't I go out too and see the world?"
The Primeval Man: "Because you can't. Woman's proper sphere is in the Cave."

[The sister of Samuel, who created the Courtauld Institute of Art, Catherine was a…

Tags: British, caveman, Cavewoman, Domineering man, Drawing, EMOTIONS, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Inferiority, Man, Prehistoric, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffrage, Woman