Votes for Women
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Title
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Votes for Women
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Description
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Postcard showing a young girl holding up her index finger to a young boy, leaning towards him, his hands are in his pockets. At the top are the words "Votes For Women". The girl is wearing a pink and red checkered dress, a black hat with two red feathers sticking out of the top, black tights, and yellow dress shoes. The boy is wearing blue overalls, a white dress shirt, a blue and white polka-dotted hat, red pants, and a yellow pair of dress shoes. To the left of the girl is the author's signature. Below them is a poem, which says, "For the work of a day, for the taxes we pay, for the laws we obey, we want something to say." The first "F" is red and bolded, the rest of the text is black.
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The girl on this postcard is depicted as sassy, waving her finger at the boy, demanding her right to have a voice in government. She looks innocent, which is similar to the power behind Kewpie dolls. This allowed the artist to increase support for a controversial cause through non-offensive artwork. The depiction of a little girl demanding more rights isn't seen as aggressive, but rather playful. These postcards became popular during the early 1900s and were sent on all occasions to increase support of the movement. However, these postcards resulted in anti-suffragists sending out their own postcards, in which they changed "Votes for Women" to "No Votes for Women", mocking the movement.
Source:
“‘Tell Every Man You Know You Want to Vote.’” "Tell Every Man You Know You Want to Vote" | New York Heritage. https://nyheritage.org/exhibits/recognizing-womens-right-vote/%E2%80%9Ctell-every-man-you-know-you-want-vote%E2%80%9D.
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Identifier
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Postcard showing a girl holding up a finger to a boy and poem: For the work of a day, for the taxes we pay, for the laws we obey, we want something to say.
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Date
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January 1913
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Publisher
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S. Bergman
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Format
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original: photo, print, drawing
online: image
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Language
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English
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Creator
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Bernhardt Wall
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Source
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https://www.loc.gov/item/92500252/
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Rights
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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