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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

Here's the hand that rocks our cradle

HERE'S THE HAND
THAT ROCKS
OUR CRADLE

[Image: A fashionable woman sporting a Gibson Girl hairstyle holds out her left hand which is grotesquely large. The lines on her hand are also highly visible. She is winking.] 9x14cm; Print

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Cradle, Domineering woman, Dress, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Jewelry, Motherhood, PRIVATE, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman

Votes for Our Mothers

[Image: Kewpie dolls dressed in yellow outfits march in a line. The kewpie doll in front carries a yellow banner emblazoned with the phrase "Votes for Our Mothers"] Print

Tags: "Votes for Women" flag, Absent father, Adultized child, AGE, American, Democracy, Drawing, Fatherhood, Infant, Motherhood, New York City, New York State, Parade, PARENTHOOD, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SLANG, Voting

Connecticut: Votes for Women

[Image: A suffragette, Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, and her two daughters stand in front of a Votes for Women banner in Connecticut.]; 9x14cm; print.

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, Absent father, AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, Children, Connecticut, Daughters, Fatherhood, Girl, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Rally, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffragette, Younger woman

Nobody loves me -- Guess I'll be a suffragette

NOBODY LOVES ME –
– GUESS I'LL BE A SUFFRAGETTE

Tags: Absent father, Absent mother, AGE, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bloomers, Child, Crying, Crying infant, Dog, Drawing, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fatherhood, Girl, Infant, Love, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, Pants, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Toy, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE

To the Girls' Christmas Tree

PRESENTS FOR BOYS

We have let you see this nice tree,
So go home quietly the boys may
Want all the presents but perhaps
There may be something left for you.

Tags: Children, Christmas, Christmas tree, Daughters, Disappointment, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, Fatherhood, Girl, HOLIDAYS, Inequality, Man, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PLANT, Presents, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Sons, Tree, Upper class, 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

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