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Insurance Monday

INSURANCE MONDAY

Chorus of Housewives: "We never employ extra help on MONDAY"

TAX COLLECTOR

[Image: stylised image of a group of domestic employees outside two houses where the housewives are denying they employ 'extra help' to a 'TAX…

Tags: British, CLASS, Domestic servant, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Man, Middle class, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Suffrage Atelier, Taxation, Wife, Woman, Working class, Working man, Working woman

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

During Suffrage Parade

Written on back: During Suffrage Parade [Crowd at Suffrage Parade March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C.]

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, CLASS, Crowd, Hat, Man, Middle class, Parade, Photograph, PLACE, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Procession, Tree, Washington D.C., Woman, Working class

Is This Right?

IS THIS RIGHT?

FRANCHISE

THE OPEN MARKET

Woman. Why can't I have an umbrella too?
Voter. You can't. You ought to stop at home.
Woman. Stop at home indeed! I have my Living to earn.

Tags: Basket, British, Capitalism, CLASS, FASHION, Inequality, Labor, Man, Market, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Umbrella, Woman, Working class, Working woman

The Suffragette Not at Home

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Cat, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Kitchen, Man, Middle class, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, note, Overwhelmed father, Suffragette, Wife, Woman, Working class

WHY NOT LET MOTHER VOTE?

[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

An Appeal to John Bull.

An Appeal to John Bull.
The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.
– Tennyson

[Image: Postcard is part of the Valentine's Series. The card depicts a suffragist, shackled and in a prison cell,…

Tags: Alfred Lord Tennyson, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Freedom, Handcuffs, Hat, HOLIDAYS, John Bull, Man, Middle class, PRISON, Prisoner, Quotation, SYMBOLISM, Valentine, Woman

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

LIFE'S LITTLE TRAGEDIES. – IN THREE ACTS. –

LIFE'S LITTLE TRAGEDIES.
'SKIRT'
FLIRT
HURT
– IN THREE ACTS. –

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, Hatpin, Man, Middle class, VIOLENCE, Woman

I AM NEUTRAL – maid and mistress

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, labeled No. 2178, 10 designs, "Neutral" Comic.

Cartoon illustration of a man hiding in a closet while two women argue in the kitchen. One woman says "I'm me own boss, see!" and the other says "You must do as…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, Cooking, EMOTIONS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Kitchen, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, PRIVATE, Wife, Woman, Working class, Working woman

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