Postcard : "Would you vote for me for health officer?" [Circa 1909-1913]
Election
Medical care
Nurses
Political campaign
Red Cross
Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Suffragette Series No. 94.
The main illustration is a woman scantily dressed in a Red Cross nurse's uniform, holding up a wine glass, next to a very small childish looking man, who is saying "Help! I'm sick! I need a doctor like you. The woman says: "No one can look after a man so well as a woman and I guarantee to take care of you." In the corner is an illustration of a large baby crying in a cradle, and is labeled the "Suffragette Ticket" with the inscription, "The hand that rocks the cradle fools the world."
Letter and envelope : Mrs. B.L. Robinson, President, Public Interests' League of the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts, to the "Chairman," Mrs. Frank Alden Besse. March 1, 1918
Anti-suffrage
Besse, Mary B.
Robinson, Margaret C.
Women and War
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts
World War, 1914-1918
Robinson requests data from the chairman of an unidentified organization of women in their branch who are engaging in "war work" for a report she will be giving on the amount and kinds of war work being done by suffragists and anti-suffragists in Massachusetts.
The envelope identifies the recipient as Mrs. Frank Alden Besse, Mary Besse, of Wareham, Massachusetts.
Mary B. Besse became a member of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee in 1929, and was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Republican National Convention in 1932 and an alternate in 1940.
1918-03-01
1 p.
English
DOCU.1918.05
Massachusetts