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WHY NOT LET MOTHER VOTE?

[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

BRISTOL "VARSITY STUDENTS REVENGE." THE WRECKED SUFFRAGETTES HEADQUARTERS.

[Image: A large crowd gathers outside the Women's Social and Political Union meeting place in London to witness the destruction of the headquarters by students of Bristol University. The students were responding to the burning down of their sports…

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bristol, British, CLASS, Crowd, Hat, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Horse, London, Man, NON-HUMAN, Photograph, PLACE, PUBLIC, VIOLENCE, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working class, WSPU

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

Leksand

[Image: A woman in a traditional Swedish folk costume leans against a tree. The text below the image reads: "might antagonize the working women."]; 9x14; print.

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, INTERNATIONAL, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Sweden, Tree, Woman, Working class

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…

The People's House (No Women Admitted)

Jane Bull: "No women admitted! No wonder the place is in such a state. High time for a good spring clean!"

Tags: "Votes for Women" sash, ACTIVITIES, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, bucket, CLASS, Drawing, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Jane Bull, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Reform, Sash, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Woman, Working class, Working woman

The Polling Station

[Image: In the forefront a Mother tends to her child, flanked by a group of professional and graduate women including a nurse and mayor depicted as valued members of society but denied the vote and, therefore, excluded from the Polling Station.…