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  • Tags: Role reversal

PERI-1913-20 Life Husbandettes.jpg
Series of pages from the same issue focused on the theme of "husbandettes." In this illustration, two men are seated together, each taking care of a baby, outside a room where a large group of women are meeting. One of the men is holding his child by…

POST-1910-25 Liberty No Wedding.jpg
A woman leaves her home. Her husband, holding a bucket and scrub brush, is left to care for the home and the children. A "Votes for women" sign is hanging on the wall.

The quote on the postcard is from the song "I'm on my way to Reno", written by…

POST-1910-28 Go Lay an Egg.jpg
Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Serie No. 67. The illustration shows a family dressed as hens and roosters. The mom is wearing a "Suffragette Votes for Women" sash and a large hat. She is staring at her husband as he yells at her,…

POST-1913-16 Lovely to be Married.jpg
Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Series No. 534. The color illustration on the front shows a man scrubbing a floor while his wife stands there holding a rolling pin, her hands on her hips.

On the verso, the card is addressed to…

POST-1909-07 Suffrage Series No 7.jpg
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.

This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 7, features a well-dressed woman wearing a "District Captainess" ribbon, leaving her husband to care for their…

POST-1910-29 Holding His Own.jpg
Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Series 512. The color illustration shows a man seated on a stool, smoking a pipe with a baby on his knee and two children playing on the floor. There is a book on the floor entitled "How to take…

POST-1909-08 Suffrage Series No 8.jpg
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.

This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 8, features an illustration of a smiling father holding his three children. Above him is a sign that reads: "What…

POST-1909-11 Suffrage Series No 11.JPG
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.

This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 11, features an illustration of man doing laundry. Next to him on the floor are a child and a cat. A sign in the…

POST-1913-17 Get out and under.jpg
Color illustration shows an angry woman holding a rolling pin and sitting on top of her husband, who is laying the floor. The two signs on the wall are: "Bless our home" and "Votes for women."

On the verso, the card is addressed to Louis Nicholson…

POST-1914-01 My Valentine.jpg
Valentine's Day card featuring an illustration of a woman on her knees proposing to the man seated in a chair, reading the newspaper with a headline on women winning the right to vote.

This card is addressed "From Alice" to Mr. Gilbert Tennant…
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