Postcard Series : This is the house that man built. [Circa 1909]

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Title

Postcard Series : This is the house that man built. [Circa 1909]

Description

Part of a series of six pro-suffrage postcards, labeled Series No. E. 23, based on the children's rhyme, "This is the house that Jack built." All of the cards refer to the British Houses of Parliament.

Date

[Circa 1910]

Subject

Great Britain.--Parliament--1900-1910
Government facilities--British--England--London
Nursery rhymes

Publisher

London : B.B. London

Text

This is "The House" that man built,
But oh what a wonderful change inside
The women as well as the men preside
They both hold the reins & no one complains
For the men now admit that the ladies' have brains
And are every bit quite as fitted to sit
As themselves, in this House that man built.

Original Format

Postcards

Physical Dimensions

9 x 14 cm.

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