Making the polls attractive to the anti-suffragists / painted by Ralph Barton. – Antique Print
![Making the polls attractive to the anti-suffragists / painted by Ralph Barton., [1915 Feb. 20] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/80/8067b0780ebc-L.webp)
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A window into the past: Making the polls attractive to the anti-suffragists / painted by Ralph Barton., preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Making the polls attractive to the anti-suffragists / painted by Ralph Barton.
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The title, "Making the polls attractive to the anti-suffragists," sets this color halftone apart: it presents the ballot box as a social setting meant to win over opponents of women's voting. Ralph Barton's watercolor was reproduced as a periodical cartoon in February 1915, when the suffrage movement was pressing state campaigns and arguments against women voting were common in print. The satire works by taking the anti-suffragists' own worries about the polls, such as crowds, bustle, and loss of feminine refinement, and treating them with mock seriousness. Barton later became a well-known caricaturist for magazines, and this early piece shows his light, quick line.
| Created / published | [1915 Feb. 20] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1910-1920.Cartoons (Commentary) 1910-1920.Watercolors Reproductions 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | Women's suffrage--United States--1910-1920. Voting--United States--1910-1920. Women--Social life--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,071 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173500 |
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