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During Suffrage Parade

Written on back: During Suffrage Parade [Crowd at Suffrage Parade March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C.]

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, CLASS, Crowd, Hat, Man, Middle class, Parade, Photograph, PLACE, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Procession, Tree, Washington D.C., Woman, 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

Is This Right?

IS THIS RIGHT?

FRANCHISE

THE OPEN MARKET

Woman. Why can't I have an umbrella too?
Voter. You can't. You ought to stop at home.
Woman. Stop at home indeed! I have my Living to earn.

Tags: Basket, British, Capitalism, CLASS, FASHION, Inequality, Labor, Man, Market, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Umbrella, Woman, Working class, Working woman

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

[Image: Two fashionable women, a mother and her daughter, stand outside a voter registration venue. A line of poorly dressed, haggard men stand outside a building below a sign that reads "Place of Registration. The younger woman says, "And yet we…

Tags: American, Cigar, CLASS, Class of voter, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, Middle class, Middle-class woman, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Voting, Working class, Working man

And this is what the vote has done for us women!

And this is what
the vote has done for us women!

[Image: This card features a full color illustration of a young girl and boy. The boy is seated, with his legs crossed, smiling. The girl is carrying two buckets, walking toward him.

The card is…

Tags: Adultized child, AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, Boy, bucket, Children, CLASS, Girl, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Labor, Working child, Working class

OTES FOR WORKERS

OTES FOR WORKERS [sic]

Tags: AGE, British, CLASS, HOUSEHOLD, Labor, Older woman, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Sewing, Sheets, Window, Woman, Working class, Working woman

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

I AM NEUTRAL – maid and mistress

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, labeled No. 2178, 10 designs, "Neutral" Comic.

Cartoon illustration of a man hiding in a closet while two women argue in the kitchen. One woman says "I'm me own boss, see!" and the other says "You must do as…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, Cooking, EMOTIONS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Kitchen, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, PRIVATE, Wife, Woman, Working class, Working woman

Rights of Women

Mother. "Please, Mr. Burns, my baby ain't fit to be vaccinated."
John Burns. "No good for you to come here. Where's your husband?"
Mother. "At sea."
John Burns. "Well, be off with you, mothers don't count as parents."

Tags: Absent father, AGE, British, CLASS, Doctor, Health, Infant, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Vaccination, Women's rights, Working class

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