Item 31553 - Suffrage campaign poster, Portland, 1917

Item 31553 - Suffrage campaign poster, Portland, 1917
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Item 31553
Suffrage campaign poster, Portland, 1917
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A poster in support of a referendum to approve a constitutional amendment to allow Maine women to vote depicts the anti-suffrage women as "slackers" who do not want to accept the responsibility of voting.

The group opposed to woman suffrage used language similar to that in the poster, arguing that suffrage is not a "right."

The artist is William Ourcadie, pseudonym for Frederic W. Freeman.

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