Vote Collection (#2)

Cartoon, The Political Cheap-Jack -- Benjamin Disraeli, portrayed as a conman at a country fair, wooing his Buckinghamshire constituents during the General Election campaign, summer 1847. 1847

Christabel Pankhurst (1880 - 1958), British suffragette, in Montmartre, Paris, after being forced to leave London for fear of arrest

Underground passage to the House of Commons 1908
The underground passage from Westminster Station to the House of Commons, a section of which was privatised for MPs, usually used in bad weather but increasingly as a way of avoiding suffragettes

Processions of suffragists in London 1908
Women and men protesting womens right to vote in London, notably a procession leaving Parliament Square for Hyde Park. The image is titled " woman more militant than ever"

Suffragettes in wax: a cabinet meeting of the militant ladies who seek the vote. The figures of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethwick Lawrence and Annie Kenny

Mrs Dora Montefiore, suffragist, in court
Mrs Dora Montefiore (1851-1933), English-Australian womens suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer, seen here in court on 31 October 1913. 1913

Our New Electorate - Votes for Women. circa 1918

Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig, suffragettes
Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) and Edith Craig (1869-1947). Edith was the daughter of the actress Ellen Terry, a theatre director, producer, costume designer and pioneer of the womens suffrage movement

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist leader
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Mrs Henry Fawcett LLD, 1847-1929), British suffragist leader. Date: circa 1908

Election Proceedings in Buenos Aires
The Argentinian election proceeding under military protection in Buenos Aires. Soldiers stand watching as men walk up the the voting table, and cast their ballots

Political poster, Vote for Hambro, design by Winnie Burnand. Showing the Liberal Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman trying to keep the lid on Irish Nationalism

Englands New Voters, 1928 - Caricature by Garretto
Impression by Garretto of the new women voters in 1928, the year in which British women finally gained electoral parity with men

When Women Vote by Charles Dana Gibson
The Suffragettes as the creator of the Gibson Girls Sees Them. " When Women Vote: After dinner the girls will have to listen to politics"

Suffragette movement: Australias message
Photo of sign Australias daily message: There are no suffragists or suffragettes in Australia. Every man and every woman over 21 has the vote : from the Papers of Molly de Morgan Date: 1912

The General Election - Intelligent Voters
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Intelligent Voters. A mild satire as a bunch of working class rural yokels of Mudford take great interest in the finest small print of a prospective

The General Election - Village Politicians
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Village Politicians. A local candidate giving a speech to the assembled clientelle at the local rural boozer... 1908

The General Election - True Blue
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - True Blue. A Candidate takes a few local yokels out for a ride in his carriage to show solidarity with the common man voter... 1908

The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter rolling-in after a hearty session of seemingly liquid-based campaigning!! 1908

Womens deputation over the rights to vote 1905
Six thousands women procession in London, to the Prime Minster Balfour, over the womens rights to vote. Date: November 1905

Holloway and Suffragette
Holloway prison... We place them on plank beds and very low diet, To stop all their din, We just run them in, Into this house that man built. Date: circa 1910

POLLING STATION 1978
A mother takes her daughter with her when she goes to vote at the polling station Date: 1978

CASTING A VOTE 1978
A woman casts her vote on polling day Date: 1978

Cartoon, At Last! (franchise for women)
Cartoon, At Last! Women aged 30 and over are finally given the vote in the UK. A Joan of Arc figure stands victorious with a flag labelled Womans Franchise. Date: 1918

THE VOTE AUCTION satirical comment on the prevalence of bribery in British parliamentary elections Date: 1853

Women trying to vote at New York polling station, 1871
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), noted American feminist, with her sister Jennie Claflin, try to vote in the New York election of 1871, but are turned away. Date: 1871

Man in beret, Aveiro, Portugal
A man wearing traditional black beret walks through a docks street in Aveiro, Portugal. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Stalins propaganda poster. Second Soviet Occupation. Latvia
Propaganda poster: New voters!. Only Stalins Constitution has givin you the power to vote. Long live Stalins Constitution!. Second Soviet Occupation 1944-1991. Occupation Museum of Latvia. Riga

Suffragette Poster Torturing Women in Prison
Poster depicting the forcible feeding of a suffragette with a doctor pouring liquid into a nasal tube whilst the victim is held down by a man and a prison wardress

Suffragette Women Wear Trousers. Man in a skirt, woman in trousers, this is what happens when lovely woman gets the vote, The men will look such freaks, She doesn t want his hat and coat

Polling Booth. Woman in mortar board stands beside a convict in his prison uniform. Captioned, Companions in Disgrace with an accompanying rhyme which begins, Convicts and Women kindly note

Force feeding a suffragette (cartoon)
A cartoon depicting a suffragette being force fed in a prison cell. Two men, a prison warder and a doctor, hold the woman down with the help of a large weight (one hundredweight)

Suffragette Cat Will Have The vote
Another fierce and feisty feline sets out her objective - The Vote. I Will Have It. Taking no notice of the police notice banning political or other meetings, by order! Date: circa 1908

Law-abiding Suffragists
A group of Suffragists standing next to a bicycle and a sign asserting that they are law-abiding. Date: c1909

Suffragette Play How the Vote was Won. A production of Cicely Hamiltons play How the Vote was Won was given at Cardiffs Royal Hotel on 12th November 1909

Suffragette Votes for Women W. S. P. U Stall
Suffragette Votes for Women W.S.P.U Stall. Members of the Kensington branch of the Womens Social and Political Union on a stall at the Dress Exhibition held at Earls Court, London

Emmeline Pankhurst Importance of the Vote. Pamphlet by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) The Importance of the Vote based on a speech given at the Portman Rooms, 24th March 1908 Date: 1908

Suffragette Come off the Fence N. U. W. S. S
Suffragette Come off the Fence N.U.W.S.S. Implores a woman sitting on a fence to join the fight for, Suffrage and Citizenship Gaining the vote would give women influence on issues such as unjust Laws

Suffragette, Cat In Muzzle, the Vote. A Cat sits with a muzzle round its head, while caption reads, The Vote, I ve Had some! Date: circa 1912

Suffragette with Brick. Suffragette holding umbrella and brick stands outside the Houses of Parliament. Verse reads, And this is the Suffragette Lady of note

When Women Vote A Proposal. When Women Vote, they will propose to the men. Lady down on one knee asks, Percy Darling, will you marry me? Man replies coyly, Really, you had better ask Mamma Miss

When Women Vote Washing day. Mans worst nightmare - the housework is his domain, pictured washing his own shirts whilst holding the screaming baby. His duties are spelled out on a chart on the wall

Suffragette Voting Cake in Oven. Mrs. Jones (Who represents Every Woman) goes to vote but suddenly remembers she has left a cake in the oven. Typical empty headed woman. Date: circa 1909

Suffragette Not at Home. Chaos reigns as the suffragette neglects home and family in the name of the cause. A frequent accusation made by the Anti-Suffrage lobby that allowing women to vote would

The Khaki Campaign: A Surrender
A radical carpenter is seduced by a patriotic siren during the khaki election campaign of 1900, held during the Second Boer war

The advent of women at the polls, 1929
Two sophisticated and fashionable ladies in heels, cloche hats and fur trimmed coats alight from a taxi at a polling station where they will vote for the first time in the General Election of May

UK General Election 1906 - Winners as the True Blue
The General Election - Comic postcard showing the delight amid the working class at the landslide defeat for the Conservative Party and their Liberal Unionist allies

Postcard illustrating the merits of Free Trade - Larger Loaf
Postcard from 1906 issued as part of the campaign to elect the Liberal politician Sir Robert Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (18361928) to office

Spain. Second Republic (1931-1936). Poster of the Communist Party in favour of the vote for the Popular Front in the elections on 6th February 1936. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

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