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  • Collection: Postcards and Stamps

POST-1910-24 Corgill Series for the NAWSA Abraham Lincoln.jpg
This card, Number 129, is part of a set of 30 postcards, each containing a message, or aphorism, about suffrage. The cards were created by commercial publishing company, The Cargill Company, and were "endorsed and approved by the National American…

POST-1911-03 Votes for Women Town Hall Meeting.jpg
Photographic postcard of suffragettes posting advertisements for the Women's Social and Political Union town hall meeting held on October 27, 1911, and handing out "Votes for Women" newspapers.

POST-1910-10 Think It Over Series No Sex.jpg
This card, Number 111, is part of a set of 30 postcards, each containing a message, or aphorism, about suffrage. The cards were created by commercial publishing company, The Cargill Company, and were "endorsed and approved by the National American…

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-1909-38 Ambition.jpg
Sepia-toned postcard with an illustration of a little girl standing on a chair, addressing her dolls, seated on the floor. Above the dolls is the sign, "Suffragettes' Meeting," and above that is a sign with the seal for England.

On the verso, the…

POST-1913-11 Ottenheimer Suffrage Parade Series3.jpg
Photographic postcard of the suffrage parade held in Washington, D.C. the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.

Reproduces a photograph of the "Great Demand" banner.

POST-1910-47 An Advocate for Womens Rights.jpg
Part of the "Orthochrome" Series of cards by photographers Andrew and George Taylor, this card features a picture of a cat wearing a hat and a shawl in the purple, white, and green colors of the Women's Social and Political Union. The cat has its paw…

POST-1908-12 Appeal to John Bull.jpg
Postcard is part of the Valentine's Series. The card depicts a suffragist, shackled and in a prison cell, reaching out to John Bull, a personification of England. The poem along the bottom is an excerpt from "The Princess," by Alfred Lord…

POST-1915-01 An Easter Prophecy.jpg
Embossed Easter card with an illustration of a hen carrying a "Votes for Women" sign.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. Frank Leburg Fowler, Indiana, and postmarked April 20, 1915. The message reads:
Dear Bro:-
Well Easter is soon here…
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