EPHEMERA: Six Original Woodblocks for Suffrage Handbills.
[NAWSA]. Six Original Woodblocks for Suffrage Handbills. [NP: ND but 1915 - 1918].
Five steel plates and one copperplate mounted on wood each with suffrage message as follows:
-"Enfranchisement Disenfranchisement" 4-1/8 x 3-1/4" with image of victorious woman warrior over "Enfranchisement" and despondent angel over "Disenfranchisement"
-"Try a Suffrage Pencil / Maryland Suffrage News" 4-1/4 x 3-7/8" showing woman wearing National Suffrage 1918 banner giving pen to man at desk signing "Man Made Laws"
-"U.S. Ballot Box - Taxes" 3-5/8 x 4-1/4" showing woman holding "ballot" and carrying envelope marked "Taxes" being restrained by polices office from voting while a man does cast his ballot
-"Home vs. Brothel / Saloon..." 4-1/4 x 5", showing suffrage figure watching over home as woman and children go up a road to "temptation"
-"Votes for Women / Hell vs. the Home" 4-5/8 x 6-3/4" with the image of woman with children on right and male figure labeled "brewer" and the legend "Shall the mothers and children be sacrificed to the financial greed of the liquor traffic?"
- "The Real Enemies of Equal Suffrage by D.B. Currie Cranford, N.J." According to this handbill, quoting Carrie Chapman Catt, and Congressman Taylor of Colorado, the enemies of woman suffrage are the liquor lobby. Published by the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association showing woman walking with suffrage bill in hand about to be ambushed by male thugs carrying bats labeled saloon, etc.
A fine group of original printing materials showing the diversity of arguments used by the NWSA at all levels to achieve suffrage.
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