Browse Items · The Suffrage Postcard Project

No – 8

[Image: Several different scenes of the 1913 suffrage parade and pageant in Washington, DC were available on postcards, a popular souvenir. The parade’s floats and marching sections represented women’s organizations and the progress of women’s…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Classical, FASHION, Girl, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Liberty, Parade, PLACE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, US Treasury, Washington D.C., Woman

Votes for Women!

[Image: A girl wearing a hat and dress is reaching up towards a chalkboard. Behind her is a doll and carriage. Next to her are two buckets. On the chalkboard is a drawing of the Statue of Liberty, labelled “Liberty. A drawing of a hangman is labelled…

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, British, Child, Doll, Florey, Girl, Hanging, Hat, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Liberty, Man, Painting, Rights, Statue of Liberty, Toy, VIOLENCE, Votes for Women

I Do Not Have All the Rights I Want

[Image: A block of text listing many of the rights sought by the Suffrage Movement. The first word, "I," is an ornately decorated dropcap. The postcard reads: "I do not have all the rights I want. I want the right to close the mines and mills against…

The Suffragette - Pouting in Prison

[Image: A young girl in a red dress sits with her legs crossed pouting in a prison cell as she leans on a "Votes for Women" placard. Text below the photo reads, "The Suffragette, Pouting in Prison."] Color; 9x14cm; Photograph

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

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