Postcard : You believe in women's suffrage - don't you? [Circa 1910-1912]
Children
Children and politics
Satire
Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled S199. The illustration is a girl wearing a "Votes for Women" sash, threatening a young boy with a rolling pin.
Cornwall, New York : Barton & Spooner Co.
[Circa 1909-1915]
Postcard : A great sale of wo-men. [Circa 1907-1913]
Advertising
Husband and wife
Satire
Wit and humor
A satirical postcard advertising a sale on women by "Messrs. Husband & Sons, Un-Ltd." The card lists the various "lots" including "fine, fat and plump suffragettes", naggers, vegetarian girls, widows, old maids, and cooking girls.
[Circa 1907-1913]
Postcard : Great suffrage demonstration. Miss Hissy addresses a meeting of the goose's Social and Political Union. [Circa 1909-1910]
Geese
Pankhurst, Christabel, Dame, 1880-1958
Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)
Green and white satirical postcard depicting suffrage leader, Christabel Pankhurst as "Miss Hissy," a goose addressing her followers of the "Goose's Social and Political Union."
"Miss Hissy" asks: "Is a question of gander - I mean gender - to stand between us and the vote?"
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. Broodbank Rowford Somerset, and postmarked September 23, 1910. The handwritten message reads: "We expect to return on Monday. We have had an enjoyable time but my cold has somewhat interfered with our going about quite as much as we wished. Love to you all- Yours affecly, [?]
Hampstead, London : E. Mack
[Circa 1909-1910]
Postcard : The speech of a woman suffragette at a meeting in Omaha, Neb. [Circa 1900-1910]
Speech
United States--Nebraska--Omaha
Postcard with the text of a speech given at a suffrage meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. The content appears to be satirical in tone.
[Circa 1900-1910]
Postcard : Oh! You suffragette! [Circa 1910-1915]
Clothing and dress
Gender roles
Illustration of a pair of pants with suspenders. Below the illustration is a poem mocking women for not wanting the vote, but their desire to wear pants.
[Circa 1910-1915]
Postcard : Pants. 1908
Clothing and dress
Gender roles
United States--Illinois--Glasgow
Illustration of a woman holding a pair of pants in front of her. The pants contain a satirical statement on the importance of pants to men and to women.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. John P. Ward Glasgow Illinois, and postmarked November 1909. The message reads: "Yo amigo:- I pensar yo scribner y! poko esta notches, poko- tempo yo pensar el senerita take y! para el show. / Orren
New York : Franz Huld Company
1908
The Harvard Lampoon. Series II, Vol. VIII. October 17, 1884
Caricatures--1880-1890
Elections
Harvard University
Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917
National Equal Rights Party (U.S.)
Presidents-Election
Satire
Stow, Marietta L.B., 1830?-1902
Voting
Women political candidates
Women presidential candidates
Issue of The Harvard Lampoon featuring a cartoon reprinted from the XXXX, entitled, "The Woman's Rights Party will make great efforts to bring out their vote on Nov. 4th." The cartoon shows a group of men and women standing in line to vote. The tallest woman, carrying a broomstick, grabs the man in front of her by the ear. Behind her are a maid, holding a man-baby off to her side, and woman holding a man by the hair.
In 1884, a group of women organized a new political party, "The Equal Rights Party," and organized the first convention to nominate two women for office: Belva A. Lockwood for president and Marietta L. Stow, for Vice-President.
The Harvard Lampoon publication was founded in 1876 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The humor magazine was inspired by popular publications like Puck (1871) and Punch (1841).
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass. : The Harvard Lampoon, Inc.
1884-10-17
English
Postcard : The Spirit of '76. 1915
Babies
Children in advertising
Kewpie art
Parades
Satire
Willard, Archibald M., 1836-1918. Spirit of '76
Lower right text: "After the painting by Willard." Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) painted the original "Spirit of '76" around 1875.
This pro-suffrage postcard features a recreation of Willard's painting with babies playing the fife and drums, marching in front of a "Votes for Women" flag.
Elizabeth, N.J. : Campbell Art Co.
1915
English
Postcard : Suffrage first! 1915
Children in advertising
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Satire
Pro-suffrage postcard, circulated by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The illustration features a young boy, holding flowers, leaning in for a kiss from the girl who holds up her hand to stop him, proclaiming, "Suffrage First!"
Elizabeth, N.J. : Campbell Art Co.
1915
English
Postcard : I'm wedded to the cause. [Circa 1905-1915]
Children in advertising
Voting
Satire
Illustration of a boy proposing to a girl, wearing a "Votes for Women" ribbon and pointing to the banner she is holding with the slogan, "Give us the vote."
[Circa 1905-1915]
English