Votes for Women Wanted Everywhere
Item
-
Title
-
Votes for Women Wanted Everywhere
-
Description
-
Visual Description: This advertisement shows a young women with a blushed face and pale pink lips, wearing a white dress with pale blue accessories and a green hat strolling through the hills along a path. The background is neatly sketched with light touches of blue and green to match the women and to suggest plants and growth or potentially even lavender. There is a slight shadow as she is gracefully walking, carrying newspapers and waiving one that reads "Votes for Women." She has a slight smile on her face as though she is carrying herself with respect and delicacy. At the top of the poster "Votes for Women" is printed in bold green letters, and "Wanted Everywhere!" at the bottom in bold green letters as well. The number and letter "1D" is printed in green in the upper left hand corner below the text. .
-
Contextual Description: Votes for Women news paper was originally established by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and first edited by a husband and wife team, Emmeline and Frederick Pethick- Lawrence. The paper grew in popularity and eventually thousands of copies were being sold each month. Hilda Dallas was a suffragist artist and made many similar illustrations for the paper. The use of green, white, and purple represent the British suffrage colors and the feminine woman was very common and used to attract women and supporters. This feminine ideal was used to contradict the idea that suffragists no longer practiced feminine roles, and to attract supporters. Due to its great success, Votes for Women was the official paper of the WSPU until 1912. Source: https://spartacus-educational.com/WvotesM.htm
-
Identifier
-
A women walking through the hills waving a newspaper that reads "Votes for Women"
-
Creator
-
Hilda Dallas
-
Date
-
1909
-
Source
-
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute MC399-273af-1
-
Rights
-
https://library.harvard.edu/privacy-terms-use-copyright-information#visuals
