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Photo, Print, Drawing How the Scheme Might Fail: Marriage Proposal refused until Women can Vote

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Title

  • How the Scheme Might Fail: Marriage Proposal refused until Women can Vote

Names

  • Wilder, Ralph (Illustrator)

Created / Published

  • [Chicago, Illinois?], [June 1909?]

Headings

  • -  United States-Constitution-Suffrage Amendment
  • -  suffrage cartoon
  • -  Wilder, Ralph
  • -  Aldrich, Senator Nelson
  • -  Drawings

Genre

  • Drawings

Notes

  • -  Ralph Wilder's cartoon shows a series of drawings in which a young man's proposal is rejected by his sweetheart until women can vote; he goes off to Washington, promising to return when he wins the vote for women; finally he returns, feeble, with beard falling to the floor, to admit defeat to his portly, mature lady.
  • -  Date and place conjectured from information on verso re election of William Lorimer as U.S. Senator for Illinois in May 1909 and taking his seat in June.

Medium

  • illustration

Call Number/Physical Location

  • JK1881 .N357 sec. XVI, no. 3-9 NAWSA Coll
  • series: Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 7 (1908-1909)

Source Collection

  • Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

Repository

  • Rare Book And Special Collections Division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection.

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Chicago citation style:

Wilder, Ralph. How the Scheme Might Fail: Marriage Proposal refused until Women can Vote. , 1909. [Chicago, Illinois?, June ?] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller002063/.

APA citation style:

Wilder, R. (1909) How the Scheme Might Fail: Marriage Proposal refused until Women can Vote. , 1909. [Chicago, Illinois?, June ?] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller002063/.

MLA citation style:

Wilder, Ralph. How the Scheme Might Fail: Marriage Proposal refused until Women can Vote. [Chicago, Illinois?, June ?] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller002063/>.