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She Is Distributing the U.S. Mail and Incidentally Enrapturing the Male: Suffragette Series No. 9

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SHE IS DISTRIBUTING THE
U.S. MAIL AND INCIDENTALLY
ENRAPTURING
THE MALE

[Image: Part of a twenty-three card series, this card is labeled Suffragette Series No. 9. This charcoal gray illustration features a woman as a mail carrier.

On the…

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

"This is our first task"

Deep rooted prejudice
Votes for women

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, Drawing, Flowers, Hat, INTERNATIONAL, Labor, NATIONALITY, Prejudice, PRO-SUFFRAGE, shovel, Votes for Women, Women's Social and Political Union, Working woman, WSPU

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

VOTES FOR WOMEN

IT DOESN'T "UNSEX" HER -
TO DO THIS
OR THIS
OR THIS [FACTORY]
OR THIS
OR THIS
BUT THIS - [POLLS]
IS ANOTHER STORY

Tags: Activist, American, CLASS, Class of voter, Labor, National American Woman Suffrage Association, NAWSA, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Suffrage, Working class, 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

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

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

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

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