Womans League Meeting at Roble Hall
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Title
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Womans League Meeting at Roble Hall
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Description
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On a light brown colored poster, a lightly painted female knight in grey armor is riding a white horse covered in a blue fleu-de-lis medieval patterned cover and carying a banner that reads “Stanford Chapter of the Collegiate Women Equal Suffrage League”. Also connected to the banner is a small portrait of a Madonna and Child figure. The title, written in large fading lettering at the top of the poster, reads “ WOMENS LEAGUE MEETING AT” and continues at the bottom of the poster “ROBLE HALL SATURDAY AT 2PM SHARP.” The knight’s black hair is lightly gestured with brush strokes and falls out of her helmet. The figure is looking downward at the horse with a serious expression. A small handwritten note at the bottom right margin reads, "Private Property."
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Contextual Description: In 1911 California became the sixth state to give women the right to vote. The suffrage movement picked up attention all over the state including Stanford University where several Stanford chapters of numerous national women's suffrage organizations were established in the early 1900s. The posters advertising for the events and meetings held on campus were aimed at the new generation of young, college educated women. The poster’s depiction of a female knight riding bravely on a horse alluded to Joan of Arc, a symbol of female strength and "patron saint" of the women's suffrage movement.
Sources: Hubschmitt, Presley, “Stanford University and the Women's Suffrage movement”, Stanford Libraries, August 26, 2020, https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/special-collections-unbound/2020/08/stanford-university-and-womens-suffrage-movement
Seale, Yvonee, "How Joan of Arc Inspired Women's Suffragists," https://www.publicmedievalist.com/joan-of-arc-inspired-suffragists/.
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Date
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ca. 1903-1926
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Source
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Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute Gr-1-48
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Identifier
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A poster advertising for a Womens Suffrage Meeting at Roble Hall dipicting a painted female knight riding a horse and holding a banner that reads "Stanford Chapter of the Collegiate Women Equal Suffrage League"
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Subject
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Women Suffrage
Voting
Knights and knighthood
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Contributor
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Alice Park (Collector)
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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
