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At the emancipated women's club – Antique Wall Art

At the emancipated women's club, 1896 — antique lithograph
At the emancipated women's club, 1896. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The title alone sets the tone: it presents a women's club as a gathering of the "emancipated," a word that in 1896 carried a good deal of irony. Keppler & Schwarzmann printed this color lithograph for *Puck*, the humor weekly founded by Joseph Keppler, which ran it in its February 26, 1896 issue. Through the 1890s, as women's clubs multiplied and suffrage campaigns gained ground, the magazine's cartoonists often treated the "new woman" with mockery, and this piece belongs to that current of satire. It offers a window onto the period's public argument over women's changing place in civic and social life.

Created / published1896
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
NotesColor lithograph copyrighted by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Illus. in: Puck, (1896 Feb. 26), p. 16. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,009 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173313

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