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"Just by way of a Change": 5

[Image: A fashionably dressed woman is outside her door attempting to put her house key in the lock. Her husband is leaning out of a window above the door in his pajamas. He has a watch in his hands that reads 5:00. There are two milk cans on the…

Tags: Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Clock, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, FOOD, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Inequality, Key, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Milk, PUBLIC, Rights, Shoes, Wife, without children, Woman, Working class, Working man

An Advokate for Women's Rights

An Advokate for Women's Rights.

Votes
for
Women

WE DEMAND
THE VOTE.

Anti-Suffragist Types (Dedicated to the A.S.S.)

The man who thinks that "women have no right to Vote because they can't defend their Country."

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANIMAL, British, Donkey, Drawing, Fight, INTERNATIONAL, Man, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Rights

FOR "SPEAKER" OF THE HOUSE.

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

FOR "SPEAKER"
OF THE HOUSE.

HULLO! -ic-
M'LOVE,
GIM'ME
M'RIGHTS

[Image: Printed in color on cream cardstock. A fashionably dressed woman with a Gibson Girl hairstyle is holding a broom and appears to be haranguing her…

Tags: Abusive wife, ACTIVITIES, Alcohol, American, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Broom, Cane, Cigar, Clock, EMOTIONS, FASHION, female politician, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Politician, PRIVATE, Rights, Shoes, Smoking, SYMBOLISM, Unappealing, VIOLENCE, Wife, Woman

GIRLS I DIDN'T MARRY: The Suffragette

[Image: A man is being kicked out of a brick building by seven women who are portrayed as old or unattractive, or both. All are wearing boots and plain dresses. The main female character is wearing a "Votes for Woman" button and on the bottom of…

How the Law 'Protects the Wife'

WIFE: "Sir, can you help me, my husband earns 30/- a week and only gives me 5/- for food for myself and children." LAW: "I cannot help you my good woman, you husband need only keep you alive, that is one of the laws of England."

Tags: Absent father, American, British, Childcare, Fatigued Woman, Finance, FOOD, Grandmother, Housework, Husband, Inferiority, Injustice, Judge, Law, Man, Older woman, Politics, Prejudice, Resigned, Rights, True Woman, Wife

I BELIEVE in women Standing up for their Rights

I BELIEVE in women
Standing up for their
Rights - -
In a street car.

[Image: Text inside a pinkish border reads, “I believe in women Standing up for their Rights — In a street car.” The “I” is decorated with a flowery border.]

Note: embossed

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Rights, Street car, TRANSPORT, Woman, Women's rights

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 - 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 - 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

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