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What Us Girls want are Laws

What Us Girls want are Laws, to make
the Boys come to see Us more often.

If I ever had a vote

If I ever had a vote and you wanted it,
you would sure get it.

VOTES FOR WIMMEN

[in Pittsburg, Pa.]

The Argument is, why don't you let me hear from you

The Argument is, why don't you
let me hear from you.

VOTES
FOR
WIMMEN

Tags: "Votes for Wimmen", "Votes for Women" placard, ACTIVITIES, Adultized child, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Child, FASHION, Fashionable, Girl, Intentional misspelling, PUBLIC, SLANG, Stump speech, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING

When the women vote

Tags: AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, Chair, CLASS, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Feminized man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Man, Middle class, PRIVATE, Romance, Woman, Young man, Younger woman

I want to speak for myself at the polls

Tags: "Votes for Women", Adultized child, AGE, American, Child, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, National costume, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, SYMBOLISM, Uncle Sam, US flag

[Image: At the top of this vertical postcard is the title "VOTES FOR WOMEN." Below the title is a young boy wearing an Uncle Sam suit--red and white striped pands, blue tuxedo jacket, white cumberband and shirt, and white, children's dress shoes. …

LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER: 3

LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN
THING AFTER ANOTHER

[Image: At the top of this vertical postcard is a bold headline that reads, "LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER" in block, bold, black font. Below the header is a man in tuxedo pants, white dress…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, American, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bedroom, Bow Tie, Chair, Couple, Domineering woman, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, gender, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Husband, Jewelry, Looking glass (mirror), Man, MARRIAGE, Mirror, PRIVATE, top hat, Wife, without children, Woman

HI MISS! YER TROWSIS IS A-COMING DOWN.

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Assertive, Bloomers, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, gender, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Inferiority, new woman, PUBLIC, Umbrella, Unfashionable, walking, Woman, Working class

"Just by way of a Change": 1

[Image: At the top of the postcard a headline reads, "Just by way of a Change." Below that a fashionably dressed woman in a hat is cycling. In the attached wicker-riding carriage is an elegantly dressed man smoking a cigarette. He is wearing a…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bicycle, Bicycling, British, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Feminized man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, PUBLIC, Shoes, Smoking, TRANSPORT, Unappealing, Woman

"Just by way of a Change": 2

[Image: A husband with a sad expression is stilling in a chair in his robe, pajamas and slippers. A young girl with a blue bow in her hair is spilling milk out of a bowl and onto his right foot. A young boy is pulling hard on the belt of his robe…

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Bow, Boy, British, Childcare, Children, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Girl, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PROFESSION, Shoes, Smoking, Toy, Unappealing, Wife, Woman, Working class

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