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What we need is a Law

What we need is a Law, so a Feller can
see his Girl every night.

VOTES
FUR
WIMMEN

SOAP

[Image: This card, is part of a twelve-card series, featuring children, illustrated by Indiana artist Cobb Shinn. The illustration features a young…

Tags: "Votes for Wimmen", "Votes for Women" placard, ACTIVITIES, Adultized child, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Child, Courting adultized child, COURTSHIP, Gavel, Girl, Intentional misspelling, Law, PUBLIC, SLANG, Soapbox, Stump speech, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING

What Us Girls want are Laws

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

Think It Over: 7

[Image: Horizontal white postcard with a waving purple banner that frames all but the top right corner of the card. In the top left of the card is a circular seal bordered thinly in white on the inside and black on the perimeter. Inside the seal is…

"I protest against Man-made laws."

"I protest against Man-made laws."

COUNSEL
WITNESS
VOTES FOR WOMEN

[Image: Postcard, printed, cardboard, polychrome, white border, black text, anti-suffrage cartoon depicting a suffragette being prosecuted in court, policeman in the witness…

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Book, Courthouse, Drawing, FASHION, Judge, Law, Man, Older man, Older woman, PROFESSION, Protest, Suffragette, Suffragist, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Uniform, Votes for Women, Woman

How the Law 'Protects the Wife'

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."

Tags: Absent father, American, British, Childcare, Fatigued Woman, Finance, FOOD, Grandmother, Housework, Husband, Inferiority, Injustice, Judge, Law, Man, Older woman, Politics, Prejudice, Resigned, Rights, True Woman, Wife

Little Art Shop Pub.

Tags: AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, FASHION, Flag, Law, Middle class, Older woman, Parade, Photograph, PLACE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Procession, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Uniform, Washington D.C., Woman

But surely my good woman don't you yearn for something beyond sufficient money?

Tags: ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Canvassing, Cat, CLASS, Drawing, FASHION, Finance, Law, Man, Middle class, Money, PUBLIC, Suffragist, Unappealing

The Suffragette.– "Down with Man Made Laws!"

[Image: A young girl in a pink dress and oversized hat speaking from atop a barrel, next to a "Votes for Women" sign in Trafalgar Square, London, England. She appears to be handing out information about the women's suffrage movement while an officer…

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, British, Canvasser, Canvassing, Child, Civil disobedience, Determined, Dress, Duty, Girl, Happy, Hat, Law, Lion, London, Mocking, NON-HUMAN, Pamphlet, Police, PUBLIC, Public speaking, Shoes, Soapbox, Standing, Statue, Suffragette, Uniform, walking, Working man

The Suffragette - Somebody Please Move this Horrid Man

[Image: A young girl in a pink dress throws a tantrum as she is blocked from entering into a building by a policeman who is holding up his hand as a gesture to tell her she is not allowed entry. The text along the bottom reads, "The Suffragette.…

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Assertive, Bewildered woman, Bow, British, Child, Civil disobedience, CLASS, Dress, Duty, FASHION, Fence, Girl, Inequality, Inferiority, Law, Liberty, London, Militant, Mocking, Police, policeman, Power, PUBLIC, Resistance, Rights, Shoes, Standing, Superiority, Uniform, Working class

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

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