Votes for Women. And You Think You Can Keep Women Silent Politically? It Can't Be Did!

Title: Votes for Women. And You Think You Can Keep Women Silent Politically? It Can't Be Did!

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Publication: [United States]: [Publisher not identified], 1915.

Description: A postcard advocating for women's suffrage in the United States, with the text "Votes for Women. And you think you can keep women silent politically? It can't be did!" Printed on white card stock, with a color illustration by Bernhardt Wall of a girl with arms akimbo. 5.5 x 3.5 inches, printed on recto and verso. No date of publication, but postmarked in 1917. Addressed to Daisy McCormick of Gerardstown, West Virginia, with a friendly, but slightly demanding, note by Martha Gunnell on the verso, asking Daisy to write back with news. Light soiling, toning, and edgewear. A Very Good, collectible copy of a suffragette postcard. The recipient of this postcard Daisy Irene McCormick (1899-1988) resided in Gerardstown, West Virginia her entire life. She married Howard William Pitzer in 1925, whose family operated McCormick's Store in Gerardstown. Bernhardt Wall was an etcher, illustrator, and historian who illustrated over 5,000 postcards and became known as the "Postcard King." Seizing the commercial opportunities provided by the debate over women's suffrage, the publisher of this postcard also sold an anti-suffrage version of this postcard with the same illustration, but different text.