Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company, Suffragette Madonna and Uncle Sam, Suffragee (1909)
Suffragette Madonna and Uncle Sam, Suffragee
and
Uncle Sam, Suffragee
Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company
As the movement to enfranchise women gained a following in the early 1900s, antisuffragette images frequently played on fears that traditional gender roles (including appearance) would be at risk. As popular means to send short, often humorous communications, some postcards in the early 1900s also presented a visual commentary about voting rights for women. In 1909, the Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company of New York produced twelve full-color lithographic postcards presenting visual arguments against women’s suffrage. The two examples on the following page are from that collection.
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Courtesy of the Alice Marshall Women’s History Collection, Series VII: Postcards, AKM 91/1.2, Archives and Special Collections, Penn State Harrisburg Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University.