
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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