Political Cartoons

Citizenship and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

See the following essay on Nast and a parody by George Frederick Keller published a few years later.

“The Color Line Still Exists – In This Case.” Harper’s Weekly, v. 23 (1879 Jan. 18), p. 52. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Woman’s Suffrage & the Nineeenth Amendment

Woman in hat with feathers on which are printed the words: We are taxed. Why not represented? We want our rights. We are as good as the men - and better. All we ask is the ballot and we won't be happy 'till we get it.
Harpers Magazine, February 7, 1912 (by E.W. Kemble)
“Woman’s Sphere,” unknown origins, from Library of Congress (National American Woman Suffrage collection.
Puck Magazine, Oct. 9, 1915, Merle De Vore Johnson
“If you are good enough for war, you are good enough to vote” (Uncle Sam as Public Opinion)Brooklyn Magazine., November 10, 1917.
“The Awakening,”Puck Magazine, February 20, 1915, Henry Mayer.
“Spirit of ‘76.” Nina Allender.The Suffragist, January 1915.
“Votes for WOMEN,” postcard
“Nobody Loves Me, Guess I’ll Be a Suffragett”, postcard, C. 1909-1912, addressed to Margorie Zoller of Canton, NY, Ann Lewis Woman’s Suffrage Collection.
“Just Like Joan of Arc.” Puck Magazine, October 16, 1915.
“Woman’s Sphere,” unknown origins, from Library of Congress (National American Woman Suffrage collection.
“The Militant Recruit” Harpers Magazine, February 7, 1912 (by E.W. Kemble)
“For some odd reason…,” from How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette, 1914, Carrie Capman Chatt Subject, Library of Congress (see How it feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette on Resources page.
Color postcard version of a poster designed by Cornelia Cassady-Davis of Cincinnati for the “Votes for Women” campaign. Via Ohio Memory.

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