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POST-1909-37 Down with man-made laws.jpg
Postcard is part of a six-card series entitled "The Suffragette. This card features a a young girl making an address from on top of a barrel next to a "Votes for Women" placard as a police officer walks behind her.

POST-1909-57 Suffragette goes to glory.jpg
Postcard is part of a six-card series entitled "The Suffragette. This card shows an ugly buck-toothed suffragists sticking her head through the bars of the carriage taking her to jail. She is holding a "Votes for women" flag upside-down.

On the…

POST-1910-51 Southwold Express.jpg
Part of a six-card series of Railway cards entitled, "The Sorrows of Southwold." This card features a suffragette hiding in the branches of a tree, lobbing a bomb at the engine.

In 1918, when universal suffrage was introduced, the suffragette and…

POST-1913-25 The Late EW Davison.jpg
Postcard with photographic portrait of Emily Wilding Davison wearing her Holloway Badge. Davidson gave up her teaching post to become a career militant. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1906. She served nine prison sentences, and…

POST-1905-05 Down with Tom Cats.jpg
Illustration of an angry cat holding a placard with the slogan "Vote for shes."

On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss L.H. Stiles Wickerford House Wickerford Worcester, and postmarked September 10, 1911.

POST-1908-05 Taking it out.jpg
Color illustration of a woman holding an umbrella, leaning over to her husband and knocking over a lamp to yell at him: "I tell you we will have votes you big massive brute." Her husband hides behind a newspaper entitled "The Woman At Home", and…

POST-1890-01 Sylvia Pankhurst.jpg
Photographic postcard of Sylvia Pankhurst, artist and suffragette. Pankhurst was the daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and younger sister of Christabel. She was a founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.

POST-1911-01 Suffragettes Series No 9 Mail-Male.jpg
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 verso, the card is addressed to Miss A. M. Brown "Lyndale" Lostock Hall Preston…

POST-1910-52 Our views at Tonbridge.jpg
Postcard is part of the Celesque Series, published by the Photocrom Co. This card contains a colorful illustration of an older suffragist standing behind a "Votes for Women" newspaper. The newspaper illustration is actually a flap that can be lifted…

POST-1916-01 Oh Where Wandering Wife.jpg
Part of a series of cards, this card contains an illustration of a man wearing a bathrobe and holding two babies in his arms. Inset to the upper right is a woman addressing a crowd of people, with the words "Why should not women run the government?"
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