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HS Unit II: Women's Struggle for Equal Rights, 1825 - 1930 Lesson B: The Activists
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Document HS II-13: “A Female Suffrage Fancy,” Cartoon by Joseph Veppler, published in Puck, July 1880.

Text included in the pictures, beginning with top left corner and moving clockwise:

caption: “Nevermore—Nevermore!”

Ballot Box; Political Machine; Sewing Machines for SALE Cheap;

caption: The Sewing Machine is Superceded

caption: Wife out Electioneering

caption: Ugly-Looking Man Driven from the Polls

Our Candidate; The Ladies PET, Demure and Simple;

caption: A Handsome Fool gets the Office

[large image in center] caption: Lovely Woman having Removed her “political Disablities” is Prepared to Vote;

[books on the floor]: Cook Book, Female Deportment, Modesty; [on left, label on the bottle]: beard grease; [words on paper]: Whiskers Forced to Grow; [individual’s hand rests on box labeled] Cigars

caption: Treats like a Male Politician and has it “Chalked Up” like one

caption: Good Looking Ones Caressed

QUESTIONS:

  1. What story does each of the eight cartoons tell?

  1. Judging from the cartoons, what is Keppler’s position on woman’s rights?

  1. How did Keppler make his views known? Why might he have chosen this approach?

  1. Find examples of people using a similar approach today.