Anti-suffrage Movement Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SPC-2019-009

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Anti-suffrage Collection (1909-1910, undated) contains 24 postcards featuring imagery and cartoons related to a movement that opposed women's suffrage. Images depicted mock suffragettes and the suffragette movement relying heavily on gender-based stereotypes and themes based on societial male and female roles during the early 20th century. Many of the postcards are part of a “Suffragette Series”, and some are drawn by postcard artist, Walter Wellman. Also included is one pamphlet entitled "Real Opponents to the Suffrage Movement says Mr. Bok are the Women Themselves Whose Peculiar Field of Work Lies Outside of Politics". Reprint from the New York Times, Sunday April 18, 1909. Pamphlet distributed by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and issued by the New York State Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage

Dates

1909-1910, undated

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Extent

1 box

.21 Linear Feet (24 postcards; 1 pamphlet)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection contains 24 postcards featuring images and cartoons related to the anti-suffragism movement, which was comprised of both men and women who opposed women’s suffrage under the belief that men and women had different societal roles, and that women should not get the right to vote. Many of the postcards are part of a “Suffragette Series”, and some are drawn by postcard artist, Walter Wellman. Also included is one pamphlet entitled "Real Opponents to the Suffrage Movement says Mr. Bok are the Women Themselves Whose Peculiar Field of Work Lies Outside of Politics".

Related Materials

For related material please consult: Women's Suffrage Movement Materials Collection; "The Comic Almanack" edited by Robert B. Brough, illustrated by George Cruikshank and H.G. Hine (book call number: SpCol AY758.C7 C92 1853; Archives and Special Collection Library 5th Floor South)