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• Undaunted
  Visual Description: A woman is seated, staring away from the viewer as she is pondering deeply. She is pictured in dark colored clothing and a hairstyle of the time, indicating she may be middle-class. The dark, shaded background fills the image with negative thoughts. The caption signifies that she is ashamed of the justice system and the laws or lack thereof, that its people must obey. Arrows on her clothing draw attention to her face and emotions of disgrace and fearlessness, hence the title “Undaunted”.
• Woman Suffrage...Give her of the fruit of her hands…
  Visual Description: A women's suffrage poster that depicts a light blue woman clad in drapery as the trunk of a tree whose arms are stretched upward, her fingers turning into the branches of a pear tree. She is standing in front of a classical style building with a reflecting pool in front of it. The image is surrounded by a gold border with the words woman to the left and suffrage to the right of the poster. On the bottom, the accompanying text says, "Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own words praise her in the gates."
• The Right Dishonorable Double-Faced Asquith
  Visual Description: The poster shows British Prime Minister Herbert Aquith, split in the middle, colored green on one side and burgundy on the other. To his right is a woman wearing an apron and bonnet holding a sign that reads "liberty and equality." He shakes a staff at her. To his left, is a man wearing a crown and robes, presumably a member of the House of Lords. He holds up a tri-colored flag reading "Liberty Equality and Fraternity" to the man. Below the figures, uppercase large purple font reads VOTES FOR WOMEN. Below that is purple text criticizing the liberal candidate for refusing to give women the right to vote.
• Suffrage Plays Broad St. Theatre
  An advertisement for suffrage plays put on at the Broad Street Theatre on February 16th, 1911. The show is a matinee and starts at 2:30 pm with tickets being sold at the Plastic Club from 10 am to 1 pm. The performance is directed by Mrs. Otis Skinner and Miss Beatrice Forbes Robertson and with support from the Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League, Equal Franchise League and the College Equal Suffrage League. The center image is that of a woman draped in fabric from her left shoulder to her feet. She is standing with her right foot forward and her arms out to sides. Her right foot is peaking out from under her drapery with only a small amount of her sandal showing. Her hair is pulled up, possibly into a tricorn hat. The woman is also standing atop a globe and stepping towards the United States. The background features a slightly clouded sky in blue and orange tones with the Liberty Bell just behind the woman’s head and shoulders.
• Equality is Sacred Law
  This poster features a yellow background with a woman's head in profile in blue-gray in the foreground. She wears a winged petasos helmet. Behind her, a gray labrys, or double-sided axe, tops a gray column. At the top the poster reads "VOTES FOR WOMEN" in yellow on a gray border. At the bottom, in Greek typography in yellow, is printed "EQUALITY IS THE SACRED LAW OF HUMANITY."
• Dispossessed
  Visual description: This image depicts a large rooster sitting on top of a nest filled with eggs as the nest rests on a large red block. The red block acts to elevate the large rooster above a smaller hen. This elevation gives the allusion that the rooster is overseeing both the nest and the hen below it. As the color red often represents nobility and superiority and the red block accentuates the appearance that the rooster is larger and more dominant than the smaller hen. The smaller hen looking up at the rooster demonstrates a sense of anger as its beak hangs open, and the hen draws its right talon towards its body in the shape of a fist. The title “U.S Government” resides above the rooster’s head, denoting that the rooster intends to represent U.S Government. At the rooster’s feet rests a sign that states “ Government Demonstration” and “ HOW TO RUN A NEST WITHOUT WASTE” capitalized too, provide emphasis—suggesting that the “U.S Government,” the rooster, is providing a “ Government Demonstration” on managing a nest to the hen.
• Waiting for a Living Wage
  Visual Description: A woman is pictured at the foot of a black wraith-like figure with the words "starvation" across its chest; it reaches its hand down to her back. The woman's hands and feet are chained to a brick structure. The impoverished woman is shown with her head down and her hands intertwined, meaning she is likely praying for greater pay, to provide for herself and possibly her family. The chains represent the fact that she is unwillingly enslaved and forced to endure such horrible working conditions.
• Occupier of This House
• Women's Suffrage Flowers
  Visual Description: A Women's Suffrage Poster titled "Women's Suffrage Flowers" at the top. On the bottom, it says "Uncle Sam: Prune away Prejudice, and those will blossom in November." There is a map of the United States blossoming out of soil and a plant pot. The pot says "Equality" and the soil says "Liberty." Near the pot, there are 3 gardening tools with words on them. There is a watering can that says "Justice;" the hedge shears say "Education" and "Truth." There is a plant rolling tool that says "Logic." The states on the map that include flowers are: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Illinois. The states on the map that are shaded in black include: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. The states that are white with neither shading or flowers include: Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Delaware. A figure of Uncle Sam is standing next to the map clipping off pieces of the states near Massachusetts. There is a caterpillar on the northeast part of the map.
• Cushion of Advantages
  Visual description: A light-skinned man and woman are sitting in a carriage with the word “government” carved on the side. The white horse, kicking up dust, is pulling the carriage with horse blinders on. On the bottom of the poster, there is text describing the man and woman’s thoughts: “MAN seated on the CUSHION: ‘How comfortable! How well-arranged!’ WOMAN on the BARE SEAT: ‘How hard! How ill-contrived!’” On the top left corner, the title of the poster, "THE CUSHION OF ADVANTAGES", is written in all capital letters in brown. The man, portrayed on the right, is sitting on a ballot box and a cushion that has "VOTES" written on it. His hands are resting on his thighs while holding reins and a whip, as he smokes a pipe. He is wearing a monocle, top hat, red waistcoat, tan suit jacket, and grey dress pants. He is looking straight forward, content. The woman,, seated below the man, is looking downcast. Her hair is in a braid, resting on her shoulder. She is wearing a cyan cloak with the hood over her head. Underneath the cloak, she is wearing a white dress and cyan shoes. Her left hand is resting on her seat.
• One Of Our Voters
  The title “Votes for Women” is written at the top of the poster in green text. There is a light-skinned woman on the left of the poster wearing a light-colored shirtwaist, long black skirt, long black jacket, and a hat with a floral piece. She is clutching a rolled piece of paper in her front hand. The other hand is extended towards a light-skinned, bearded man on the right of the screen who is dressed in a baggy suit and a hat. He is holding a small pipe and leaning against a wall, away from the woman. The caption reads “One of our voters- What do you wimmin want the vote for? You ain’t fit for it”
• A Meeting Will Be Held
  A woman in battle armor, with a green skirt on over the leg armor, is depicted blowing into a horn and carrying a large red banner. Her sword is sheathed on her hip. In the top left hand corner are the words in black ink, "A MEETING Will Be Held." Along the bottom of the poster are the statements in black ink, "LAW-ABIDING." and "NO PARTY."
• The Haunted House
  Visual Description: This poster depicts an oversized sheer black silhouette of a woman sitting in the center of the poster, in front of the British House of Parliament. She is bent forward with her chin upon her right hand glaring down toward the left hand corner of the scene. Her other hand is completely white, this is the only part of her depiction that is not black. This hand is grasping a rolled up paper that says “VOTES FOR WOMEN.” The buildings and the background are a hazy grayscale with no color and the sky is full of clouds. In the top right corner, black text reads, "the Haunted House." In the top left corner, the artist's name, David Wilson, is enclosed in a black box. The bottom of the poster reads "By Permission of the Proprietors of the Daily Chronicle."
• What's Sauce for the Gander
  Visual description: The poster depicts two white geese on a cream-colored background. One goose is over a bowl with the word "votes" in the center of it. Below the geese black text reads "what's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose" in all capital letters.
• Who's Afraid?
• Justice to Women- Susan B. Anthony
  This tan poster with black font depicts suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony in her old age. She is shown in profile, wearing glasses with her white hair tied back. She wears an elegant black shirt with and white ruffled lace collar with a jewel on it. The black text below reads" Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906. Pioneer Worker for Woman Suffrage. She spoke before every Congress from 1869 to 1906. 'Let every woman who enjoys the freedom she helped to win and every man who rejoices in the larger horizon of the mother of his race, give loving homage to the great heart and dauntless spirit of Susan. B. Anthony." "JUSTICE TO WOMEN" is printed across the top of the poster, and "MAKERS OF AMERICAN IDEALS" across the bottom.