Postcard Series : This is the house that man built. [Circa 1909]
England--London
Holloway Jail, London
Nursery rhymes
Women's Social and Political Union
Part of a series of six anti-suffrage postcards, labeled Series No. E. 19, based on the children's rhyme, "This is the house that Jack built." All of the cards, with the exception of this one, refer to the British Houses of Parliament. This card refers to Holloway Jail, where British suffragettes were imprisoned.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. H. G. Prossen Mulgram Terrace 54 Chilton Street Bridgwater, and postmarked [1915?] The message reads: "Dear Harold / Just a few line to say that I hoping to come home on Saturday hoping to find you allright from Will"
London : B.B. London
[Circa 1910]
Le Petit journal: supplement illustre. No. 1,011. April 3, 1910
Clermont-Ferrand (France) -- Newspapers
England--suffragists
France -- Clermont-Ferrand
Holloway Jail, London
Leigh, Mary
Magazine illustration
New, Edith
Paris (France) -- Newspapers
Prisoners
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Le Petit Journal, or “The Little Newspaper”, was a daily newspaper published from 1863 to 1944. In 1884, the paper began to include a weekly illustrated supplement.
This issue includes, on page 112, an illustration with the caption: "A Tip from the English suffragettes. Disguised as firefighters they roam an area of London on a fire engine."
In French: "Un Truc des suffragettes anglaises. Deguisees en pompiers elle parcourent un quartier de Londres sur une pompe a incendie."
Paris, Le Petit journal
1908-09-06
French
Text
France
Published from 1890 to 1920