caption: “the last few buttons are always the hardest.” -chapin in the louis star
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• Caption: ‘Won’t you let me help you John?’
• Old Age Pensions, Temperance, Wife’s Sisters Bills, Infant Death Rate, Barmaids, Poor Law Reform, Religious Education, Factory Legislation, Cry of the Children, Free Food-Schools Children, Peace Proposals
• Caption: What a Woman may be, and yet not have the vote: Mayor, Nurse, Mother, Doctor or Teacher, Factory Hand
• What a man may have been, and yet not lose the vote: Convict, Lunatic, Proprietor of white slaves, Unfit for Service, Drunkard
The Only Way
“”Woman Suffrage Plank”
“Equal Pay”
“1000000 Votes”
“Shorter Hours”
“The Unanswerable Argument for Suffrage”
"Woman's sphere is the homewherever she makes good.”
“The HomeThe Law
Industry
The Stage
Business
Fine Arts”
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-“Hugging a Delusion”-
An anti-suffragist sings in the foreground, directed by a political boss and accompanied by a procurer, a dive keeper, a child labor employer, a grafter, a cadet, and a sweat-shop owner.
Caption: "'I did not raise my girl to be a voter. (1915)
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Binds:Vote less
Equality before the law
No financial
Control
Artificial
Limitations
Prejudice
Custom
John Bull (representative ofthe British state) is asking the women to work for the happiness and education of the nation.
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Caption: Suffragists on the War Path.
“Jump on him! He is only a MEREman!”
Talk of failure for women’s suffrage. Trying to portray theSuffragettes as “bitter old crones in a gender-war.”
“Haven’t the Suffragettes the sense to see that the very worst way of campaigning for the vote is to try and intimidate a man into giving them what he would gladly give otherwise?” -Lloyd George, speaking in 1913.
Caption: “Make Way!” -Our Cause -Vote for Women -Our Rights -We Can Think
Questions: Would this cartoon be detrimental to men’s support of women’s suffrage? Why?
What is the significance of the face on the earth?
Caption: Hugging A Delusion
Questions: Does this picture reflect the idea that women will replace family responsibility with political duty? How?
How would this image influence people’s views on both sides of women’s
suffrage?
Women Suffrage
-President Grover Clevelandcarrying books getting chased by Susan B. Anthony as Uncle Sam chuckles in the back ground by the tree.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.
Begun and held at the city of Washington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen (1919).
“The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
“Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
Frederick H. Gillett
Benjamin Gitlow - V.P.
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Gustin, E. W.. "Election Day!." LEARN NC. 1909. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. 12 Nov 2008 <http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/5340>.
(1917) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division(LC-USZC2-1199)11/12/08 http://www.nwhm.org/RightsforWomen/cartoons.html
Joan Drew, Won't You Let Me Help You John?, Artists' Suffrage League poster (1909), From http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wliberal.htm, 12 Nov 2008
Dana Grace, What a Woman May Be and Yet Not Have The Vote, London’s Suffrage Atelier poster (1912), From http://www.imow.org/wpp/stories.viewStory?storyid=1618, 12 Nov 2008
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Men In Curlers Comic:• http://www.elections.org.nz/files/women-suff-cartoon_001.jpg
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