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Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled S199. The illustration is a girl wearing a "Votes for Women" sash, threatening a young boy with a rolling pin.

A satirical postcard advertising a sale on women by "Messrs. Husband & Sons, Un-Ltd." The card lists the various "lots" including "fine, fat and plump suffragettes", naggers, vegetarian girls, widows, old maids, and cooking girls.

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…

Postcard with the text of a speech given at a suffrage meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. The content appears to be satirical in tone.

Illustration of a pair of pants with suspenders. Below the illustration is a poem mocking women for not wanting the vote, but their desire to wear pants.

Illustration of a woman holding a pair of pants in front of her. The pants contain a satirical statement on the importance of pants to men and to women.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. John P. Ward Glasgow Illinois, and postmarked…

Lower right text: "After the painting by Willard." Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) painted the original "Spirit of '76" around 1875.

This pro-suffrage postcard features a recreation of Willard's painting with babies playing the fife and…

Pro-suffrage postcard, circulated by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The illustration features a young boy, holding flowers, leaning in for a kiss from the girl who holds up her hand to stop him, proclaiming, "Suffrage First!"

Illustration of a boy proposing to a girl, wearing a "Votes for Women" ribbon and pointing to the banner she is holding with the slogan, "Give us the vote."

Postcard with a Valentine's Day theme, also known as a "penny dreadful," created to ridicule the suffrage movement

Woman wearing a sash with the word "Suffragette" and holding up a "Suffragette" pennant with one hand while she firmly squashes with…