Placard Collection (page 4)

Suffragette, Votes for Women WOW!!. Suffragette with placard reading, Votes for Women Wow, watches as another is carried off, kicking and screaming by a policeman. Two urchins laugh heartily

Suffragette How d you like to Spoon with me?. Rather frightening stereotypical woman with big teeth, pince-nez, umbrella and a VFW placard invites men to spoon with her Date: circa 1908

Suffragette Pouting in Prison. Girl with large VFW placard, sits Pouting in prison Date: circa 1908

Suffragette Girl Protests Trafalgar Square. Little girl stands on a barrell, VFW placard beside her, and cries, Down with man-made laws! Date: circa 1908

The Cry of The Children. A line of little children, each holding a placard reading, Votes for Mammies Stretches into the distance. Captioned, The Cry of the Children by C. Hedley-Charlton

Suffragette, Split Red Faced Man. A fat smiling red faced man reads the newspaper placard announcing Great Suffragette Split Remarkable Disclosures Wonder how she did that - at the skating Rink Is

Suffragette, Votes for Women, Fancy Dress. A seated group of men and women, some in masks, men blacked up all in strange attire. Girl in front row holds Votes for Women placard. Date: circa 1909

Suffragette, Blokes for Women. Stereotypical ugly suffragette stands on a stool seeking converts to the cause, while two children wave placard with caption, Blokes for Women

Notice to Irish Munsters from Germans, 1916
A placard placed by the Germans above their trenches facing the Munsters after the Irish uprising of April 1916, claiming, English guns are firing at your wife and children

Armistice Day scene with Kaiser Wilhelm II cartoon
An Armistice Day scene in London on 11th November 1918 with a group of young men on the street holding up a placard with a cartoon of Kaiser Wilhelm II on it

Scruffy Street Tough advertising The Ladies Idol
Humorous ironic cartoon by Phil May, depicting a scruffy, unattractive street tough advertising The Ladies Idol at The Vaudeville Theatre. Date: 1895

Arrested for wearing a corset advertising placard
" Why pick on me, officer? Its my guv nors idea!" A policeman is not sympathetic to the protestations of the beardy gentleman employed to parade in front of a Drapers shop wearing a corset

Girls Life Brigade carnival procession, Walton, Essex
Girls Life Brigade youngsters in fancy dress during the annual carnival procession at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 1953

Poll Tax demonstration, Central London
A Metropolitan Police officer in the middle of a peaceful crowd of demonstrators during the Poll Tax demonstrations in Central London

Kings Arms Inn Sign
An interesting placard outside the Kings Arms Inn, Stow- on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. Licensed in 1548; King Charles I stayed there on 8 May 1645. Date: licensed 1548

Supreme being Taught
Placard for use in schools, intended to inculcate devotion to L Etre Supreme instead of the old Christian deity, proposed by Robespierre and approved by the Convention. Date: 7 May 1794

Welsh train station, 1933
The famous Welsh village tongue twister: the train station of llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch spelt out in honour of a visit from Prince George (later King George VI)

A fare comment. By Charles Crombie
Suffragette: " Holloway! Whats the fare?" Conductor:" Same as you ad before, miss-bread and water!

Scenes from the Rent War in Ireland
Scenes in the late 19th century during the Rent War in Tipperary as follows: 1. A Riot at Templebraden, Limerick County 2. Boycotted Policemen 3. A No Rent Placard 4

Elections in Brussels
Voters, you are being conned ! - a placard expresses conflicting views in the 1857 elections as to whether Belgium should be a monarchy or a republic

England / Blandford
Blandford, Dorset, England, where a window cleaner cleans the windows of a branch of the Midland Bank and a placard advertises a forthcoming television exhibition

Evening Standard Stall
A newspaper seller stands with a copy of The Evening Times although the placard on his stand advertising the headline from the Evening Standard " Gun raid: woman hostage". Date: 1962

Che Guevara Placard 1983
ERNESTO GUEVARA known as CHE GUEVARA Placard commemorating the Latin American guerrilla leader, at the Ministry of Interior, Havana, Cuba

Onion Christmas Card
An onion bulb lady in tightly laced boots holds a placard which reads: With The Seasons Greetings. Perhaps the season in question is harvest time?

Riots in Ghent 1892
Police and mounted troops clash with socialist rioters in Ghent. A placard asks for universal suffrage

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