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Just Politics, Hubby

THE SUFFRAGETTE

JUST POLITICS, HUBBY.
HAD TER TREAT-(ic)-YOU
KNOW HOW 'TIS, HER SELF

LEM'ME
EXPLAIN

[Image: A man and a women standing facing each other. The man is looking down and holding a wooden rolling pin. The woman says, "Lemme…

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Clock, Domineering woman, emasculated man, EMOTIONS, Feminine man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Hatpin, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Politics, PRIVATE, Rolling Pin, Sad, Sad man, The Suffragette series, Upper class, VIOLENCE, Wife, Woman

I AM NEUTRAL – suffragettes

In the distance two women face each other, pointing in each other’s faces. One holds a banner that says, “Votes for Women”; the other hold a banner that says, “Anti—“; question marks and exclamation points are drawn above them. In the foreground a…

This Ain't No Man's Job

[Image: A young boy is angrily pushing a pram with a crying baby. The boy is dressed in an orange and black checkered cap, a red and black striped, long-sleeved shirt that almost resembles a prison uniform, brown knicker-boxers, black socks and…

Tags: Absent father, Absent mother, ACTIVITIES, Adultized child, American, Angry, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Boy, Children, Crying, Crying infant, EMOTIONS, Feminized man, Gender Roles, Infant, PARENTHOOD, Pram

I'll Get That Vote Yet!!!

[Image: An exasperated girl with a torn dress and disheveled hair. The text below the image reads: "I'll Get That Vote Yet!"]Color; Drawing

Tags: Adultized child, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered, Bow, Child, Children, Defeated, Drawing, Dress, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Girl, Hat, New York State, Resigned, Ribbon, Sad, Shoes, Suffering, VIOLENCE

Mother's Got the Habit Now

[Image: A wife dressed in men's clothing walking away from her husband as he sits on a stool rocking their child in the cradle. The text above the image reads: "Mother's Got The Habit Now."] Color; Print

Give Me a Vote or -

[Image: A masculine suffragette with her hair in a bun and a Tyrolean hat threatening to launch a "Votes for Women" stone in a sling. The text on the behind and below her reads, "Give me a vote or - Sermons in Stones!"] Color; 9x14cm; Print

The "Suffragette": Down With the Tom Cats

THE "SUFFRAGETTE."
DOWN WITH THE TOM CATS.

VOTE
FOR
SHES

[Image: An angry dirty cat bearing its claws while holding a sign that says, "Vote for Shes." The text along the bottom reads,"The 'Suffragette.' Down with the Tom Cats."] Color;…

Tags: Angry, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Cat, Cat and Mouse Act, Drawing, EMOTIONS, NON-HUMAN

The Suffragette - I Will See the Government

[Image: A young girl in a green dress stands pouting as she is handcuffed to a fence. On the other side of the fence a police man stands guard with his back turned toward the girl. The text along the bottom reads, "The suffragette. I will see the…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Arrest, Bow, British, Child, Coercion, CRIMINAL, Defeated, Disenfranchisement, Drawing, Dress, Duty, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fence, Freedom, Girl, Hat, Impatient woman, Inequality, Law, Liberty, London, Mocking, Opportunity, Police, policeman, Power, Prisoner, PUBLIC, Resigned, Rights, sad woman, Shoes, Standing, Uniform, Working man

"Now! Where's my vote?"

"Now! Where's my vote?"

[Image: Postcard is part of Series 591, and depicts a young girl, wearing a large bow, struggling to hold up a very large hammer.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Elsie J. Termouth Elmtree Suffolk Street…

Tags: Adultized child, AGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, British, Child, Determined, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Girl, Hammer, Threat of Violence, VIOLENCE

By Gum! Them suffragettes be gittin every thing

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bench, Bewildered man, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Hotel, Older man, Outside, Reading, SLANG, Suffragette, top hat, Umbrella, Younger woman

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