Woman’s Journal for Sale
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Title
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Woman’s Journal for Sale
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Description
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Visual Description: A suffrage poster depicts a roughly-sketched woman in grayscale. She wears a long, dark, and buttoned-up overcoat on top of a light-colored turtleneck, decorated with a pendant. On her head she wears a hat adorned with bows and feathers that almost fully covers her hair. She stands with her head and shoulders turned towards us; her left arm is on her hip and her right arm holds out the front page of a newspaper titled “Woman’s Journal” with indistinguishable images and text. A newspaper bag is draped over her shoulder reading “The Woman’s Journal” on the outside. The exposed text on the inside of the bag reads “Votes For Women.” The woman stands behind an elaborate building with bricks and columns, but only parts have been drawn in. Above the woman, bold black text reads “The Woman’s Journal,” and below her, similar black text reads “For Sale Here.” The background is a muted gold color, with a thin black border outlining the entire poster.
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Context: Founded by Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, the first issue of The Woman's Journal was released on January 8th, 1870. This American periodical publicized the views of the the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The publication printed speeches, debates, poems, short stories, and columns that pertained to the women’s suffrage movement. Though The Woman’s Journal stayed silent on the “scandoulous” topics of prostitution, abortion, and contraception, its moderate, less-politicized view allowed it to outlive the more radical publications of the time. Its audience promoted suffrage as a means to receive better education, create better career paths, and obtain property rights for those women that were married. Until it merged with The Woman Citizen in 1917, it was the leading publication of the woman suffrage movement. Source:
Encyclopedia Britannica. “Woman's Journal,” September 11, 2018. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Womans-Journal.
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Creator
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Unknown
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Date
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Issue Dates: (1870-1931)
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Format
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Lithograph
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Identifier
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A poster depicts a rough sketch of a woman holding a newspaper, standing in front of a decorative building. The text above her reads " THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL", and text below her reads "FOR SALE HERE"
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Language
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English
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Rights
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https://library.harvard.edu/privacy-terms-use-copyright-information#visuals
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Source
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Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute Gr-15.5-4
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Subject
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Women’s Suffrage
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Extent
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14”x22”
