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Votes for Women: "California Next"

[Image: The image is of a woman in a yellow hat and dress. she is holding a pole with a yellow banner attached to it. The banner states: Votes for Women. Underneath this banner is the the text, "California Next, For Address Only." Underneath this…

DON'T marry a suffragette

Suffragette Series No 2: Electioneering

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bribery, CLASS, Class of voter, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Feminine woman, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Masculinized woman, Middle-class woman, Older woman, PUBLIC, Suffragette, Suffragette Series, 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

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

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

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 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

Insurance Monday

INSURANCE MONDAY

Chorus of Housewives: "We never employ extra help on MONDAY"

TAX COLLECTOR

[Image: stylised image of a group of domestic employees outside two houses where the housewives are denying they employ 'extra help' to a 'TAX…

Tags: British, CLASS, Domestic servant, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Man, Middle class, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Suffrage Atelier, Taxation, Wife, Woman, Working class, Working man, Working woman

Votes for Women

[Image: The postcard is divided into six squares, each with an illustration of a woman in it. In the top left square is a woman scrubbing a floor. Text above reads, “It doesnt ‘unsex’ her —“ and text below reads, “to do this.” In the top right square…

Tags: American, Ballot, Ballot Box, CLASS, Factory, Florey, gender, Gender Roles, Labor, Middle class, Middle-class woman, Nurse, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Votes for Women, Voting, Working class, Working woman

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