Postcard : "Once-I-get my liberty, no-more-wedding-bells-for-me!"
Anti-suffrage
Father and child
Gender role
Housekeeping
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Social role
United States--Pennsylvania--Cowanesque
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 William Jerome and Jean Schwartz in 1910.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. Lee Skinner in Cowanesque, Pennsylvania, and postmarked April 7, 1911. There is no message written on the card.
Hobson, C.
1910
Postcard : Suffragette Madonna. [1909]
Anti-suffrage
Father and child
Gender role
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Nursing
Social role
Virgin Mary
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic cartoon postcards opposing woman suffrage.
This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 1, portrays a man feeding a child.
[New York] : [Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company]
[1909]
Postcard : Suffragette Vote-Getting The Easiest Way. [1909]
Anti-suffrage
Elections
Political campaigns
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.
This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 4, features a woman throwing herself on a man and kissing him.
[New York] : [Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company]
[1909]
Postcard : Uncle Sam Suffragee. [1909]
Anti-suffrage
Gender role
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.
This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 6, features an illustration of Uncle Sam dressed as a woman.
[New York] : [Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company]
[1909]
Postcard : Election Day. [1909]
Anti-suffrage
Elections
Father and child
Gender role
Househusbands
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Nursing
Social role
Women election officials
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 two children. The sign above the husband reads: "What is a suffragette without a suffering household?"
[New York] : [Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company]
[1909]
Postcard : I Don't Care If She Never Comes Back. [1909]
Anti-suffrage
Father and child
Gender role
Househusbands
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Social role
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 is a home without a father."
[New York] : [Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company]
[1909]
Postcard : Where, Oh Where is My Wandering Wife Tonight? [1909]
Anti-suffrage
Father and child
Gender role
Househusbands
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Nursing
Social role
Women--Political activity
Part of a twelve-card series of full-color lithographic postcards opposing woman suffrage.
This card, labeled Suffragette Series No. 10, features a man holding two children, one crying. In the corner is an illustration of a woman, presumably his wife, speaking to a large crowd.
[New York] : [Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company]
[1909]
Postcard : I Want to Vote, But My Wife Won't Let Me. [1909]
Anti-suffrage
Father and child
Gender role
Househusbands
Husband and wife
Infants
Marriage
Nursing
Social role
Women--Political activity
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 corner reads: "Everybody works but mother: she's a suffragette."
[New York] : [Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company]
[1909]
Postcard : Valentine Greetings. 1913
Anti-suffrage
Homemakers
Valentines
Vegetables
Women--Suffrage--Ohio
Valentine's Day card featuring illustrations of animated vegetables, surrounding the anti-suffrage poem.
This card was addressed to Miss Sallie Gray in Warrenton, Ohio, and postmarked February 13, 1915.
New York : S. Bergman
1913
Postcard : My Valentine. [Circa 1923]
Gender roles
Husband and wife
Marriage proposals
Valentines
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 1100 Stanton Street Bay City, Michigan, and postmarked February 13, (1923).
Worcester, MA : Whitney
[Circa 1923]