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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…

Suffrage Society for Men

Tags: ACTIVITIES, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, EMOTIONS, Gambling, HOUSEHOLD, Inequality, Man, Pledge card, President, PROFESSION, Smoking, Suffering, Suffering man, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffrage Memorabilia, SYMBOLISM, Woman

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…

Sojourner Truth

[Image: Sojourner Truth is sitting facing the camera. She is wearing a dark dress, white collar, white cap and white shawl. She has knitting in her hands. There are flowers and a book on the table to her left. Her left elbow is resting on the…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, African American, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, Flowers, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Housework, Photograph, PLANT, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, RACE, Sewing, Social reform foremother, Sojourner Truth, Spectacles, Woman

HI MISS! YER TROWSIS IS A-COMING DOWN.

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Assertive, Bloomers, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, gender, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Inferiority, new woman, PUBLIC, Umbrella, Unfashionable, walking, Woman, Working class

"Just by way of a Change": 1

[Image: At the top of the postcard a headline reads, "Just by way of a Change." Below that a fashionably dressed woman in a hat is cycling. In the attached wicker-riding carriage is an elegantly dressed man smoking a cigarette. He is wearing a…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bicycle, Bicycling, British, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Feminized man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, PUBLIC, Shoes, Smoking, TRANSPORT, Unappealing, Woman

"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

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