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The Suffragette Hubby

THE SUFFRAGETTE
HUBBY.

Hush my little baby –
Papa's little pet!
Ma's out lookin' for her
rights –
Ma's a Suffragette.

[Image: A husband holds his crying baby.]; 9x14 cm; print.

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Child, Clock, Crying, Crying infant, EMOTIONS, Family, Father, Fatherhood, Fatigued man, Gender Roles, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Infant, Man, MARRIAGE, Mother, Older man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Sad, Sad man, Suffragette, Wife

THE SUFFRAGETTE
BAR.

NOTHING
BUT
ICE CREAM
AND
PRETZELS.
OH! JOY!

NO
TRUST

[Image: This card, Number 4014, is part of a sixteen-card series. Three women are at a bar facing a fourth woman. All are dressed well and colorfully. They are…

Tags: Alcohol, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, CLASS, Domineering woman, FASHION, FOOD, Hat, Hatpin, Ice Cream, Man, Middle class, Prohibition, PUBLIC, Restaurant, Suffragette, top hat, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman, Working class, Working woman

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

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

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

Sylvia Pankhurst

[Image: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Sylvia E. Pankhurst, an English campaigner for the suffrage movement.]

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Middle class, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

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

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

Suffragette Procession and Hyde Park Rally

[This postcard shows a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) rally in Hyde Park on 23 July 1910. The demonstration was staged in support of the Women's Conciliation Bill being debated in parliament at the time. Two processions converged on Hyde…

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…

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