Woman Suffrage Postcard
date: label: associated date
content: 1915
name: label: associated institution
content: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: A popular anti-suffrage argument claimed that entering the supposedly masculine world of politics would take away from women’s femininity. This postcard directly refutes that argument by giving examples of other tasks women commonly performed that, while by no means feminine, were not considered to take away from their “womanliness” in the same way that voting would not change a woman’s fundamental character.
label: Description
content: The National American Woman Suffrage Association began a postcard campaign in 1910, partly to raise awareness of the cause and partly as a fundraiser. The cards could be funny, serious, or sentimental. Some employed powerful patriotic symbols and logical arguments to make their case for woman’s right to vote.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: general subject association
content: Women's Suffrage
label: general subject association
content: Postcards
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edna L. Stantial
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0939.70
label: accession number
content: 1979.0939
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0939.70
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 1/32 in; 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm x .0508 cm