Political Cartoons about the Women's Rights Movement

Dublin Core

Title

Political Cartoons about the Women's Rights Movement

Subject

Political Cartoons about the Women's Rights Movement represent public opinion about the movement and the women who were a part of the movement

Description

Women on both sides of the Women's Rights Movement

Creator

Lydia Biallas

Language

English

Collection Items

The Awakening
Political Cartoon from a magazine, 9045 x 6003, digitized version of a drawing in a magazine, February 20, 1915,
World War I was starting on the other side of the world, but America would not join until later. There was a referendum on a suffrage…

The Age of Brass/Or the Triumphs of Women's Rights
The political cartoon dipicts two women running for office highlights the fear some men might have had at the time it was drawn. Digitization of a political cartoon, a lithographic print. 1869. This was just after the Civil War of the United States…

Votes for Women a Success. Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery.
A map with the dates of states giving women suffrage. Digitization of a map. 1914. World War I begins that year, female suffrage had been started in the west to bring in more settlers. The states that have given suffrage to women are next to each…

We Want Our Rights
This was a drawing on the front cover of Life magazine. 1912. World War I would start for the rest of the world in three years, and the Women's Rights Movement in American was beginning again after Susan B. Anthony died less than ten years before,…

A Happy New Year 1867/ A Happy New Year 1917
A Political Cartoon comparing how New Year's Eve celebrations changed between 1867 and 1917. A Two-page drawing in Life magazine. 1916. In 1867 the Fourteenth Amendment would be ratified the next year, 1917 World War I would end the next year and…

[Uncle Sam (as "Public Opinion") embracing nurse ("American womanhood"), saying: "If you are good enough for war you are good enough to vote"]
A political cartoon about the public's acceptance of women's suffrage after women's performance during World War I. Digitization of a drawing. 1917. World War I was still happening and would not end until the next year, but there had already been…

The woman-suffrage movement in New York City society leaders securing signatures to petitions to be presented to the constitutional convention - scene at Sherry's
Women signing a petition to receive suffrage in their state New York. Halftone Photomechanical Prints. 1894. This was after the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified, soon it will be the twentieth century and with it World War I and the…

The Spirit of 1913
The women's rights movement was perceived to be strong in 1913. Halftone photomechanical print. 1913. World War I would begin for the rest of the world in two years, and in seven years women would receive the right to vote from the ratification of…
View all 8 items