The Haunted House
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Title
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The Haunted House
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Description
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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."
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Contextual Description:
The battle for women's suffrage in England was hard fought and long. Though it largely took place during the same time frame as American suffrage, it was fundamentally different because in the UK the battle was mostly fought in Parliament. Suffragists fought to get bills passed in the House for decades but the majority were shot down for a long time. A common consensus of the treatment of suffragists during the time was that they were ignored and pushed to the side, especially with WW1 on the horizon. The poster was mass printed by Johnson Riddle & Co. which was very popular for their printing of WWI propaganda as well.
UK Parliament. “Women and the Vote,” 2020. https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/
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Creator
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David Wilson
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Source
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Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute Gr-15.1-6
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Subject
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women
suffrage
posters
british parliament
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Rights
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https://library.harvard.edu/privacy-terms-use-copyright-information#visuals
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Format
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Poster
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Identifier
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The silhouette of women sits on top of the House of Parliament holding a paper that says "VOTES FOR WOMEN"
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Date
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1907
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Publisher
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The Daily Chronicle
