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POST-1910-46 Now Wheres My Vote.jpg
Postcard is part of Series 591, and depicts a young girl, wearing a large bow, struggling to hold up a very large hammer.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Elsie J. Termouth Elmtree Suffolk Street Helensburgh, and postmarked May 26,…

POST-1912-13 No Votes Thank You.jpg
This postcard, designed by Harold Bird, was produced by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. The central figure, wearing a flowing dress and flowers in her hair, politely refuses the vote. Behind her is the suffragette, leaping towards…

POST-1912-12 A perfect woman.jpg
Postcard depicts an ugly buck-toothed suffragette waving a flag, "I want a vote," above her head in front of the sign, 'Give me a vote and see what I'll do!'

On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Owens 8 Tower Bridge Buildings Mill…

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Aino Malmberg was a Finnish politician and writer. In this essay she recounts the history of Finnish women's suffrage and the events that led to women's right to vote. She also discusses the impact of women's vote on the political parties, families,…

POST-1905-10 Downhearted Suffragettes.jpg
Postcard with a cartoon illustration of a police officer struggling to carry a woman who is holding out a "Votes for Women" sign from Police Court.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss E. Harding "milwyn Villa" Blaengarw N. Bridgend, and…

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Six pie charts demonstrate the percentage of non-natives who comprise the male populations of Berlin, Paris, and London and in the United States (males of voting age) of New York, Boston and Chicago.

The flier includes statements on suffrage by…

PERI-1913-07-6 Cartoons.jpg
Reproductions of drawings by H.W. Webster and Herbert Perry originally published in the Denver Times and the Sioux City Journal.

A Suggestion for London by H.W. Webster. The cartoon shows a woman who has just dropped her "Votes for Women" banner…

PERI-1910-14-1 Vanity Fair No 1233 front.JPG
Color caricature of a woman in a long green dress reaching out with one hand. The subject was Christabel Pankhurst, eldest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and a co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.

The artist, Leslie Ward,…

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On Thursday, August 19th 1909, eight members of the Women's Freedom League were arrested at different times in Downing Street, where they had gone to present a petition to Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith. The women were charged with 'obstructing the…
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