{"id":529,"date":"2020-04-22T18:45:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2020-04-27T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:21:34","slug":"4d-the-postcard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/home\/4-getting-the-message-out\/4d-the-postcard\/","title":{"rendered":"4d &#8211; The Postcard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suffrage-themed, commercially produced postcards abounded during the state and national suffrage campaigns. Some were sold in sets, others as individual pieces that the purchaser could mail with a penny stamp. The five examples here reflected characteristics of the genre. There were satirical put-downs, such as \u201cUncle Sam Suffragee\u201d and \u201cBy Gum!\u201d featuring a stock country bumpkin figure. The \u201cQueen of the Poll\u201d card presented women voters as frivolous and silly. Note the yellow roses on the figure\u2019s enormous hat. The \u201cSuffragette Question\u201d placed a woman in a domestic space cooking up questions about voting. The ostensibly pro-suffrage postcard \u201cVotes for Women\u201d used a drawing by a prolific postcard artist, Bernhardt Wall, for his Sunbonnet series, which featured children like the pink-clad tyke seen here. The wily publisher played both sides by printing anti-suffrage postcards using exactly the same sketch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two items from the Nathaniel Puffer Ephemera Collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cUncle Sam Suffragee\u201d [postcard]. Suffragette Series No. 6. New York : Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company, 1909<\/li><li>\u201cQueen of the Poll\u201d [postcard]. Suffragette Series No. 9. New York : Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company, 1909<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Three items from Woman Suffrage Collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956). \u201cVotes for Women\u201d (postcard). New York: S. Bergman, 1913.<\/li><li>F.R. Morgan. \u201cThe Suffragette Question\u201d (postcard), circa 1910 <\/li><li>\u201cBy Gum! Them Suffragettes Be Gittin Everything\u201d (postcard), 1913.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted on the verso of the \u201cThink It Over\u201d postcard series, the Cargill Company of Grand Rapids sold and distributed these postcards on a profit-sharing plan with the proceeds benefitting the national treasury of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA used postcard sets like these to set forth various arguments in favor of suffrage. Some texts emphasized women\u2019s status as mothers and represented them as more truthful and honest than anti-suffrage \u201cmachine politicians.\u201d Other inscriptions made the case for suffrage on the grounds of justice. Like a Facebook post today, a postcard could spread one\u2019s political views to friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>National American Woman Suffrage Association. \u201cThink It Over: An Ounce of Persuasion Precedes a Pound of Coercion\u201d (set of 10 postcards from the series). Grand Rapids, Mich. : Cargill Company, 1910. Woman Suffrage Collection.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffrage-themed, commercially produced postcards abounded during the state and national suffrage campaigns. Some were sold in sets, others as individual pieces that the purchaser could mail with a penny stamp. The five examples here reflected characteristics of the genre. 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