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THE WORKER'S HUSBAND

Lady Canvasser. Have you a vote, Mr. Brown?
Loafer. ‘Course I got a vote, and shall have so
long as my wife takes in washing.

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, Artist's Suffrage League, British, Canvasser, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, Husband, Labor, Laundry, Middle class, Middle-class woman, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Wife, Working class, Working man

"THE OPPORTUNIST."

WOMEN'S FRANCHISE BILL
ANTIS

Tags: Activist, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANIMAL, British, CLASS, Donkey, Drawing, Education, Franchise, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Middle class, NON-HUMAN, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Satire, Suffrage Atelier, SYMBOLISM

[Image: Two fashionable women, a mother and her daughter, stand outside a voter registration venue. A line of poorly dressed, haggard men stand outside a building below a sign that reads "Place of Registration. The younger woman says, "And yet we…

Tags: American, Cigar, CLASS, Class of voter, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, Middle class, Middle-class woman, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Voting, Working class, Working man

The Suffragette Bar

THE SUFFRAGETTE
BAR.

NOTHING
BUT
ICE CREAM
AND
PRETZELS.
OH! JOY!

NO
TRUST

[Image: This card, Number 4014, is part of a sixteen-card series. Three women are at a bar facing a fourth woman. All are dressed well and colorfully. They are…

Tags: Alcohol, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, CLASS, Domineering woman, FASHION, FOOD, Hat, Hatpin, Ice Cream, Man, Middle class, Prohibition, PUBLIC, Restaurant, Suffragette, top hat, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman, Working class, Working woman

The Dirty Pool of Politics

[Image: The drawing displays a woman digging with a shovel labeled "ballot." Four ghosts are to her left and are entitled "food adulteration," "bribery," "white slavery," and "craft." The text on the postcard reads: "The Dirty Pool of Politics. Can…

Sylvia Pankhurst

[Image: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Sylvia E. Pankhurst, an English campaigner for the suffrage movement.]

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Middle class, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

VOTES FOR WOMEN: Miss Adela Pankhurst

Votes for Women
Organiser, National Women's Social and Political Union

Tags: Activist, Adela Pankhurst, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Middle class, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

Suffragette Procession and Hyde Park Rally

[This postcard shows a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) rally in Hyde Park on 23 July 1910. The demonstration was staged in support of the Women's Conciliation Bill being debated in parliament at the time. Two processions converged on Hyde…

From Prison to Citizenship

[Image: The postcard shows the Prisoners Pageant: 617 women in white wearing their prisoners' medals and carrying 'a glittering host of steely broad arrows' representing their imprisonment. Before them is the newly unfurled 'Hunger Strikers' banner…

I WANT A VOTE

"A perfect woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort and command."

I WANT A VOTE

GIVE ME A VOTE AND SEE WHAT I'LL DO

[Image: Postcard depicts an ugly buck-toothed suffragette waving a flag, "I want a vote," above her head in front of the…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, CLASS, Drawing, FASHION, Fashionable, Middle class, NATIONALITY, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Voting, Woman

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