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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

Mrs. Pankhurst Hon. Sec.

[Image: Photographic Portrait of Mrs. Pankhurst Hon. Sec. The text below the image reads: "Women's Social and Political Union & Clement's Inn Hon. Sec."]; 9x14; print.

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

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

What would I do with the suffragists

Tags: Abusive, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, Chair, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, HOUSEHOLD, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Torture, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman

McKenna's Cat "Bill."

"What cat could keep up with this?"

[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The…

Tags: ANIMAL, British, Cat, Cat and Mouse Act, Chain, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Legislation, NON-HUMAN, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette

For Votes for Women

For Votes for Women
Katherine Manson. March 1909.

[Image: Photographic portrait of Katharine Gatty (1870-1952) in prison dress sewing. Beneath is hand written 'For Votes for Women Katherine Manson. March 1909'. There is a handwrittten message on…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, British, Dress, FASHION, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Katharine Gatty, Photograph, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Sewing, Suffrage, Suffragette, Unfashionable

Going Shopping

All for the Cause

[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and…

Tags: Activist, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, breaking of shop windows, British, British suffragette, Civil disobedience, Drawing, FASHION, Hammer, Hat, Hat pin, National League Opposing Women’s Suffrage, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE

Votes for Women

While in the act of voting, Mrs. Jones remembers that she has left a cake in the oven!

[Image (Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection): On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Enid Matson Hotel Prince Baudouin Knock-sur-Mer Belgium, and…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, Cake, Cooking, Domestic activity, Drawing, EMOTIONS, FASHION, FOOD, Glasses, Hat, Man, Oven, PUBLIC, Spectacles, Suffragette, Umbrella, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman