Postcard : She is distributing the U.S. Mail and incidentally enrapturing the male. 1911
Gender roles
Lostock Hall (England)
Postal service
Preston (Lancashire, England)
United States--Washington--Blaine
Women postal service employees
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 Lanc[ashire] England, and postmarked August 11, 1912.
Williamson
New York, N.Y. : C. Wolf
1911
Postcard : The suffragette letter carrier. 1909
Gender roles
Postal service
United States--Washington--Walla Walla
Women postal service employees
This card, Number 4002, is part of a sixteen-card series, featuring attractive women attempting to act as men. In this illustration, the woman is delivering the mail in a skirt and heels, holding a dog on a leash, as she delivers the mail. The message reads: "Would you trust your wife as letter carrier? Honest, would you?"
On the verso, the card is addressed to Charlie Miller Walla Walla Washington c/o Oxford Bar, and postmarked February 5, 1910. The message reads: "What the --- is the matter with you fellow. Why don't you drop a line. Am curious how the old berg is getting on. Ted
Wellman, Walter
1909
Puck Magazine. "Puck proposes that the country post-offices be given to attractive young ladies. This will keep out "offensive partisans" and please everybody. May 1885.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890
Postmasters
Post offices
Suffrage--United States--Caricature and cartoons
Full color cartoon published in Puck Magazine, a weekly humor magazine first published in 1871 until 1918. This page was removed from the original issue.
In one illustration, three women working behind the counter of the post office where a crowd is gathered. In the other illustration, two men are standing outside--one is the "Democratic applicant for post-office-rejected for fear of 'offensive partisanship'"; the other is the "Republican post-master-dismissed for 'offensive partisanship.'"
Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937, artist
New York : Mayer, Merkel &Ottman Lith.
1885-05
1 sheet ([1] page)
English