Would the soldier give her the ballot? – Antique Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Would the soldier give her the ballot?. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Would the soldier give her the ballot?
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The title alone frames this drawing as a question put to a wounded man, and the answer is in the picture: a nurse stands at a soldier's cot while he lies bandaged, and the suffrage argument is pressed into a hospital ward. The cartoon was published in the New York Post in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, when the fight for women's voting rights in New York was still unsettled. Commentary cartoons of this kind used wartime injury and nursing service to argue that women who served in such roles had earned a say at the ballot box.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on layered paper : pencil, ink, and opaque white. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) 1910-1920.Drawings 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title inscribed below image. Stamped on verso: Powers Photo Engraving Co. 164 Nassau St. N.Y. NOV 1 1917. (DLC/PP-1995:138.7). Published in the New York Post. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects. Womens' suffrage--1910-1920. Nurses--1910-1920. Soldiers--1910-1920. Wounds & injuries--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,308 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-200274 |
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