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Description
A poster depicting a mother with three small children and an image of a grave with the phrase "Our Daddy Died for Democracy -- Won't You Vote For It?" under the image.
The poster was produced by the Suffrage Referendum League of Maine as part of its campaign to get a constitutional amendment passed on Sept. 10, 1917 that would allow women in Maine to vote.
The artist is William Ourcadie, pseudonym for Frederic W. Freeman.
About This Item
- Title: Pro woman suffrage poster, 1917
- Creator: Frederic W. Freeman
- Creation Date: 1917
- Subject Date: 1917
- Location: ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 14 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1876, Box 3/2
- Collection: Florence Brooks Whitehouse papers
- Object Type: Text and Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Cartoons (Commentary)
- Children
- Death & burial
- Families
- Mothers
- Suffrage--Maine
- Women's rights--Maine
- Women's suffrage--Maine
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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