Dispossessed
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Title
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Dispossessed
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Description
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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.
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Date
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ca. 1911
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Creator
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Lou Rogers
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Source
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Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Rights
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https://library.harvard.edu/privacy-terms-use-copyright-information#visuals
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Subject
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women, suffrage, voting, eggs, roosters
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Format
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Form / genre: poster
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Materials/Techniques: lithography
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Dimensions: 8 x10 inches
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Contributor
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Alice Park [collector]
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Publisher
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The Woman Citizen, New York City.
