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"This is our first task"

Deep rooted prejudice
Votes for women

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, Drawing, Flowers, Hat, INTERNATIONAL, Labor, NATIONALITY, Prejudice, PRO-SUFFRAGE, shovel, Votes for Women, Women's Social and Political Union, Working woman, WSPU

[Image: Postcard with photographic portrait of Edith Craig. Craig was actress Ellen Terry's illegitimate daughter. She worked in the theatre as an actress, director and costumier. Craig belonged to a number of suffrage societies and sold the Women's…

Tags: actress, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, British, British suffragette, costumier, director, Edith Craig, HISTORICAL FIGURES, NATIONALITY, Newspaper, Photograph, Pioneer Players, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffrage Atelier, Suffragette, Women's Freedom League, Women's Social and Political Union, Women's Social and Political Union newspaper, WSPU

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…

How the deuce did I know she was a suffragette?

Tags: Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, British suffragette, Dating, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Man, NATIONALITY, Rejection, Relationship, Suffragette, VIOLENCE

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

I'm de original "ladies man", I am!

Votes fer Wimen

Tags: "Votes for Wimmen", "Votes for Women" banner, ACTIVITIES, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, Dialect, Intentional misspelling, Irish, NATIONALITY, PUBLIC, Smoking, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Working class

Information Bureau, W.S.P.U.

[This postcard show the suffragettes at work in the information bureau and record office at the Women's Social and Political Union (W.S.P.U.)'s headquarters, Clement's Inn. By 1910 the W.S.P.U. employed 110 salaried staff. Together with an army of…

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, INTERNATIONAL, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Reading, Suffrage, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

Leksand

[Image: A woman in a traditional Swedish folk costume leans against a tree. The text below the image reads: "might antagonize the working women."]; 9x14; print.

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, INTERNATIONAL, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Sweden, Tree, Woman, Working class

Miss Christabel Pankhurst

National Women's Social and Political Union

Tags: British, British suffragette, Christabel Pankhurst, HISTORICAL FIGURES, London, NATIONALITY, Photograph, Portrait, Suffragette, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

MISS EDITH NEW, Of the National Women's Social and Political Union.

[Image: Photographic portrait Miss Edith New. The text below the image reads: "Of the National Women's Social and Political Union. {Peter McNairn, Photographer, Hawi."]; 9x14; print.

Tags: British, British suffragette, Edith New, HISTORICAL FIGURES, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

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