Beacon Lights
Beacon Lights
Frederick Douglass
1817-1895
Paul Laurence Dunbar
1872-1906
<span>David P. Campbell Postcard Collection, The University of Akron, </span><a href="http://collections.uakron.edu/">http://collections.uakron.edu/</a>
Woman Suffrage
Postcard, printed, cardboard, black image and text, white background, produced by the Suffrage Atelier, stylised image of a man and a woman riding a horse, man holding the reins, woman clinging to the man, printed inscription front: 'WOMAN SUFFRAGE Mrs BULL - 'We should get on better, John, if I rode a horse of my own.
Suffrage Atelier
The Women's Library: Suffrage Collection<br /><br /><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&offset=0&profile=default&search=suffrage+postcard&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:Mrs_BULL,_We_should_get_on_better,_John,_if_I_rode_a_horse_of_my_own.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&offset=0&profile=default&search=suffrage+postcard&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:Mrs_BULL,_We_should_get_on_better,_John,_if_I_rode_a_horse_of_my_own.jpg</a>
1909-c.1914
No – 8
[Image: Several different scenes of the 1913 suffrage parade and pageant in Washington, DC were available on postcards, a popular souvenir. The parade’s floats and marching sections represented women’s organizations and the progress of women’s rights. The tableau on the steps of the U.S. Treasury building illustrated the ideals of Justice, Charity, Liberty, Peace, and Hope.
On the day before the 1913 presidential inauguration, more than 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote. Women from around the country came to Washington in a show of strength and determination to obtain the ballot. More than 10,000 spectators crowded the parade route. Some were simply boisterous but others were hostile. They spilled past the barriers and off the sidewalks, clogging Pennsylvania Avenue. Police officers were unable or unwilling to hold back the crowds and after the first four blocks the parade stalled as the marchers couldn’t pass through the mob. A cavalry unit from Fort Myer was finally called in to restore order and the parade finished hours late. The public was horrified, and a one-day event became an ongoing story, with demands for an investigation of the police department’s failure to protect the women.]
1913
MY VALENTINE
MY VALENTINE.
If I can't vote, why
not propose?
If I am bold you must excuse me.
I've loved you ages, good-
ness knows!
And don't you dare, Sir
to refuse me.
THE TIMES
FEBURARY 14
WOMEN HAVE
THE VOTE
[Image: Valentine's Day card featuring an illustration of a woman on her knees proposing to the man seated in a chair, reading the newspaper with a headline on women winning the right to vote.
This card is addressed "From Alice" to Mr. Gilbert Tennant 1100 Stanton Street Bay City, Michigan, and postmarked February 13, (1923).]
<span>Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection (Postcards and Stamps), </span><a href="https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/</a>
Worcester, MA: Whitney
ca. 1923
The Anti Suffragist!
The Anti Suffragist!
"I do not want to fly," said she
"I only want to squirm!"
She drooped her wings dejectedly
But still her voice was firm
"I do not want to be a fly
I want to be a worm!"
O yesterday of unknown lack!
To-day of unknown bliss!
I left my fool in red and black,
The last I saw was this–
The creature madly climbing back
Into her chrysalis!
[Image: Pro-suffrage postcard created by artist and enamellist, Ernestine Mills. Mills designed and published this postcard, together with another entitled "The New Mrs Partington", independent of any of the suffrage societies.]
Ernestine Mills
<span>Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection (Postcards and Stamps), </span><a href="https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/</a>
London: Ernestine Mills
Little Bo Peep: Votes for Sheep
LITTLE BO PEEP
SAID "VOTES FOR MY SHEEP"
BUT DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GET THEM.
SHE STOOD IN TEH STREET
WITH A CROOK ALL COMPLETE.
IF SHE SEES A NEW HAT SHE'LL FORGET THEM.
VOTES FOR SHEEP: A MARTYR
[Image: Part of a series of postcards labeled "Valentine's Series." This satirical card contains a color illustration of a little girl, "Little Bo Peep," wearing a large hat. She is holding a shepherd's crook in one hand and a newspaper in the other. the newspaper is entitled "Votes for Sheep" and has a picture of a lamb, captioned "A Martyr."
On the verso, the card is address to Miss L. Stubbs "Garhroyd?" the Drive Roundhay Leeds, and postmarked April 17 [year missing]. The handwritten message reads: "Monday / My dear Edna, / Thank you so very much for your photograph. I think it is splendid of you. I am having a lovely time, but it's nice to see the sea again. With love, Dorothy"]
Graeff
<span>Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection (Postcards and Stamps), </span><a href="https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/</a>
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, reaching out to John Bull, a personification of England. The poem along the bottom is an excerpt from "The Princess," by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. Lavor 4 Cambridge Rd Walton on Thames Surrey, and postmarked April 27, 1909. The handwritten message reads: "Dear Alice / Sorry could not come yesterday owing to the weather & I cannot come tomorrow as I have a friend coming to stay for a few days love from L. Elliot"]
Valentine Series
<span>Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection (Postcards and Stamps), </span><a href="https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/</a>
Hoping you're in for a good time this Xmas
Hoping
you're in
for
a
good
time
this
Xmas.
May Xmas never prove
a 'sell,'
And naught mar your delights,
For when they give you 14 days,
You'll get your Womens Rights.
Danber
People's History Museum, <a href="https://phm.org.uk/">https://phm.org.uk/</a>
ca. 1908
MIGHT IS RIGHT
MIGHT IS RIGHT.
ASS Manifesto
THE MORAL (?) OF IT.
Jane Bull. 'They're my bricks as much as yours - I helped to buy them with my own money'.
John B. 'I don't care I'm stronger than you, and Auntie says Might is Right!'
VOTE
VOTE
VOTE
VOTE
VOTE
[Image: Postcard, printed, cardboard, black and white image, black text, white background, produced by the Suffrage Atelier, stylised image of a John and Jane Bull, the archetypal English children, John Bull has built the Houses of Parliament out of bricks, old woman sitting in the background reading, printed inscription front.]
Isobel Pocock
<span>LSE Library (Flickr), </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/</a>
Suffrage Atelier
1909
THE SUFFRAGETTE
THE SUFFRAGETTE
W.S.P.U.
EDITIED BY
CHRISTABEL PANKHURST
1D. WEEKLY
POST CARD
ADDRESS ON THIS SIDE
[Image: Postcard, printed, cardboard, polychrome image and text, white background, produced by the Women's Social & Political Union, blank postcard with Union logo on the address side, image of a woman in Medieval dress with a sword and a flag in the colours of the Union, printed inscription.]
<span>LSE Library (Flickr), </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/</a>