Votes for Women! The Suffrage Movement Book of Postcards

Item #45924
ISBN: 9780764986611

Thirty color reproductions bound in a handy postcard collection

Oversized postcards measure 6½ x 4¾ in.The fight for American women to gain the vote lasted more than seven decades, upending traditional notions of gender roles and forcing a reconsideration of the duties and privileges of citizenship. Recorded in photographs, periodicals, and broadsides, the suffrage movement inspired the creation of a wide variety of colorful protest imagery and art, including posters, cartoons, and music. The thirty postcards in this book—featuring images selected from collections at the Library of Congress—capture the conviction, energy, and creativity of the pathbreaking protesters who changed the course of American history.

Images

Foot soldiers of the suffrage movement advocate for voting rights

Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947)

Martha Wentworth Suffern (1859–1957)

Lucy Stone (1818–1893)

Cover for Life shows figure of Columbia acknowledging a young woman with ballot in hand

Alice Paul (1885–1977)

Poster llustrates women’s struggles without the vote

Suffragists carry tricolor banners up the steps of the US Capitol

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883)

Allegorical figure of Justice demands voting rights

Suzanne Morin Swing (1882–1982)

Suffragist’s banner

Official program for the Woman Suffrage Procession

Mary Winsor (1869–1956)

Cover for Life, with young suffragist amending the Declaration of Independence

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)

Illustration for Puck depicts women clamoring for their rights as progress moved eastward

Wage-earning women picket the White House

Suffragists in a hay-wagon ride through the streets of Manhattan

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)

Alison Turnbull Hopkins (1880–1951)

National Woman’s Party protest at the White House

Cover for “Votes for Women International Suffragists’ Song”

Lucy Burns (1879–1966)

Lucretia Mott (1793–1880)

Cover for Life pokes fun at suffragists

National Woman’s Party members picket President Woodrow Wilson’s speech in Chicago

Elizabeth Smith Miller (1822–1911)

Cover for Life, published after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

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