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VOTES FOR MOTHER

VOTES FOR MOTHER

"SHE WORKS FOR US NOW FATHER'S DEAD."

Tags: Absent father, Absent husband, Boy, British, Child, Children, CLASS, Drawing, Girl, Infant, Mother, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Toy, Wife, Woman, Working class

View of the Merchant St. looking East

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, Children, CLASS, Dress, FASHION, March, Pennsylvania, Photograph, PLACE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Procession, Upper class, Woman, Working class

They Have a Cheek, I've Never Been Asked

FACTORY
ACTS
REGULATIONS
FOR
WOMEN

Tags: Artist's Suffrage League, British, CLASS, Factory, Labor, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Working class, Working woman

Them pesky suffragettes wants everything for themselves

[Image: An older man with a long beard on his chin and a long nose is holding an umbrella and has a carpetbag by his feet. He is looking at a door that reads “For Ladies Only” at the top. Text at the bottom reads, “Them pesky suffragettes wants…

Tags: AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Carpet bag, CLASS, Dialect, Door, FASHION, Hat, Man, Older man, Suffragette, Tie, Umbrella, Working class

THE WORKER'S HUSBAND

Lady Canvasser. Have you a vote, Mr. Brown?
Loafer. ‘Course I got a vote, and shall have so
long as my wife takes in washing.

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, Artist's Suffrage League, British, Canvasser, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, Husband, Labor, Laundry, Middle class, Middle-class woman, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Wife, Working class, Working man

The Suffragette Not at Home

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Cat, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Kitchen, Man, Middle class, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, note, Overwhelmed father, Suffragette, Wife, Woman, Working class

The Suffragette Bar

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

The Suffragette - Somebody Please Move this Horrid Man

[Image: A young girl in a pink dress throws a tantrum as she is blocked from entering into a building by a policeman who is holding up his hand as a gesture to tell her she is not allowed entry. The text along the bottom reads, "The Suffragette.…

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Assertive, Bewildered woman, Bow, British, Child, Civil disobedience, CLASS, Dress, Duty, FASHION, Fence, Girl, Inequality, Inferiority, Law, Liberty, London, Militant, Mocking, Police, policeman, Power, PUBLIC, Resistance, Rights, Shoes, Standing, Superiority, Uniform, Working class

THE SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS OF THE WORKING WOMAN

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC
SWEATED LABOUR

Tags: Activist, British, CLASS, Everywoman, Greek Mythology, Labor, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SEX, SOCIAL IDENTITY, White Slavery, Woman, Working class, Working woman

The Russian Suffragist

Типьі курсистокь.

[Google translate: Tipi Kursistok.]

Русская суффражистка.

[Google translate: Russian suffragist.]

[Image: Russian postcard with a color illustration of a shabbily dressed woman walking with one hand in her pocket and the…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, CLASS, Cyrillic, Drawing, FASHION, Hat, Hatpin, PUBLIC, Russian, Smoking, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman, Working class

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