Postcard : Le vrai Plebiscite. Plebiscite: She'll vote?. . . So.
Alsace (France)
Ballot
Elections
France
Plebiscite
Soldiers
World War, 1914-1918
Postcard with an illustration of a French soldier embracing a woman after the country of Alsace voted to reunite with France. The caption reads: "The real plebiscite. Plebiscite: She'll vote?. . . SO." The illustration was created by artist and French war correspondent, Georges Bertin Scott.
On the verso, the card is addressed to "La Bourdonnerie" La Rocque. Jersey. Channel Islands, and postmarked December 12, 1917.
Scott, Georges Bertin, 1873-1943
[1914-1917]
Letter and envelope : Mrs. B.L. Robinson, President, Public Interests' League of the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts, to the "Chairman," Mrs. Frank Alden Besse. March 1, 1918
Anti-suffrage
Besse, Mary B.
Robinson, Margaret C.
Women and War
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts
World War, 1914-1918
Robinson requests data from the chairman of an unidentified organization of women in their branch who are engaging in "war work" for a report she will be giving on the amount and kinds of war work being done by suffragists and anti-suffragists in Massachusetts.
The envelope identifies the recipient as Mrs. Frank Alden Besse, Mary Besse, of Wareham, Massachusetts.
Mary B. Besse became a member of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee in 1929, and was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Republican National Convention in 1932 and an alternate in 1940.
1918-03-01
1 p.
English
DOCU.1918.05
Massachusetts