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"VOTES FOR WOMEN!" CERTAINLY!!

"VOTES FOR WOMEN!"
CERTAINLY!!

Here's mine for the candidate I
have selected
for my Valentine!

[Image: The Title of this horizontal, two-color process card (green and red) reads: "VOTES FOR WOMEN!" CERTAINLY!!. Here's mine for the candidate…

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, Adultized child, AGE, Ballot, Ballot Box, Courting adultized child, COURTSHIP, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Happy man, Happy woman, HOLIDAYS, Love, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Romance, Shoes, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Valentine

"What are the Wild Wives Saying?"

"WHAT ARE THE WILD WIVES
SAYING?"

WOMEN
SUFFRAGE
METING
IN
TOWN HALL
TO NIGHT
AT 7PM

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Man, Middle class, PUBLIC, Suffrage, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Umbrella, VIOLENCE, Woman

"Where are you going to, my pretty Maid?"

"Where are you going to, my pretty Maid?"
"I'm going a-voting, Sir," she said.
"And who shall you vote for, my pretty Maid?"
That Duck in plus fours, kind sir," she said.

[Image: Illustrator Donald McGill's postcards proved hugely popular with…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Briefcase, British, EMOTIONS, Flapper, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Male politician, Man, Politician, PUBLIC, Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act, Surprise, Surprised Man, Umbrella, Voting, Woman

"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 Suffrage Problem

Tags: Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bed, Bedroom, British, Couple, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, PRIVATE, Trousers, Wife, Woman

A Suffragette.

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broken Dishes, Broken picture, EMOTIONS, Hiding, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, knife, MARRIAGE, Spade, Table, Threat of Violence, Unappealing, VIOLENCE, Wife, without children

A woman's place is in her home

A woman's place is in
her home

VOTES FOR WIMMEN

VOTES FOR WOMEN

Ain't it lovely to be married?

Ain't it lovely
to be
married?

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Series No. 534. The color illustration on the front shows a man scrubbing a floor while his wife stands there holding a rolling pin, her hands on her…

Tags: American, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, PRIVATE, Surprise, Surprised Man, Unappealing, Wife, Woman