Browse Items (76 total)

  • Tags: Great Britain

POST-1909-56 Band of the WSPU.jpg
Photographic postcard of the fife and drum marching band, founded in 1909, which often accompanied the organization's processions and demonstrations. The band was created to publicize the Women's Exhibition at the Prince's Skating Rink. WSPU member,…

POST-1908-11 Hyde Park Demonstration.jpg
Photographic postcard of Emmeline Pankhurst and Elizabeth Clark Wolstenholme Elmy at a Hyde Park Demonstration.

Emmeline Pankhurst was the leader of the Women's Social and Political Union. Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, age 75, was a member of the…

POST-1908-10 Mrs Pankhurst Arrested.jpg
Photographic postcard of the arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst on the charge of obstructing a policeman while on a deputation to the House of Commons. The next day she received a sentence of six weeks in Holloway prison. The deputation to the Commons…

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-1910-49 Mrs Pethick Lawrence.jpg
Photographic portrait postcard of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, joint editor of "Votes for Women", Honorary Treasurer of the National Women's Social and Political Union, with the organization's address.

POST-1908-09 General Drummond.jpg
Photographic portrait of Flora Drummond, also known as General Drummond, of the National Women's Social and Political Union, with the address of the organization.

Flora Drummond was one of the original members of the WSPU and in 1906, became a…

POST-1910-48 Mrs Pankhurst full length.jpg
Photographic postcard of studio portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst, formally dressed in full-length dark dress, standing, facing the camera, next to a table holding an open book (with her left hand resting on book), her right hand holding her glasses.

POST-1905-11 Suffragists attacking policeman.jpg
Postcard is labeled No. 641, and contains a colorful cartoon illustration of one woman restraining a police officer while another woman hits him with an umbrella.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. Inward 64 Sayer Street Elephant & Castle…

POST-1909-58 Great Suffrage Demonstration.jpg
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…
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2