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Results of the Suffrage victory

[Image: Color illustration of a woman walking out of the door, leaving her husband to take care of their child. The sign on the wall reads: "God bless our home."

On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. Fred [Ziveifel?] Hollenberg, Kansas, and…

LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER: 2

LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN
THING AFTER ANOTHER

[Image: At the top of this vertical postcard is a bold headline that reads, "LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER" in block, bold, red font. Under the healine is a man on the viewers left who is…

Tags: American, Angry, Angry man, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Couple, Domineering woman, EMOTIONS, Feminine woman, Gender Roles, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Physical violence, PRIVATE, VIOLENCE, Wife, without children, Woman

LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER: 3

LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN
THING AFTER ANOTHER

[Image: At the top of this vertical postcard is a bold headline that reads, "LIFE IS JUST ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER" in block, bold, black font. Below the header is a man in tuxedo pants, white dress…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, American, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bedroom, Bow Tie, Chair, Couple, Domineering woman, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, gender, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Husband, Jewelry, Looking glass (mirror), Man, MARRIAGE, Mirror, PRIVATE, top hat, Wife, without children, Woman

Suffragette Madonna: Crop of 1910

[Image: Under the title "Suffragette Madonna," a man dressed in business attire is holding a blond baby doll and holding a bottle to the doll's mouth. He is standing in what appears to be a dining room with a gold charger sitting on the plate ledge…

Tags: Absent mother, AGE, American, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Cat, Childcare, Doll, Fatherhood, Feminized man, Gender Roles, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Infant, Madonna, Man, NON-HUMAN, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, SYMBOLISM, Toy, Wife, Woman

THE SUFFRAGIST AT HOME

[Image: A women in her bedclothes is lying in bed pointing a finger at her husband. She is upset. The husband is sitting on a stool holding two bablies who are crying, he is also in his bedclothes and has a look of surrender on his face. The…

"Just by way of a Change": 2

[Image: A husband with a sad expression is stilling in a chair in his robe, pajamas and slippers. A young girl with a blue bow in her hair is spilling milk out of a bowl and onto his right foot. A young boy is pulling hard on the belt of his robe…

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Bow, Boy, British, Childcare, Children, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Girl, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PROFESSION, Shoes, Smoking, Toy, Unappealing, Wife, Woman, Working class

"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

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