{"id":1972,"date":"2016-10-26T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2016-10-26T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:32:43","slug":"voting-habits-suffrage-postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/voting-habits-suffrage-postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Habits: Suffrage Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postcards, though now considered a novelty, were considered to be of the upmost social importance during the early 20th century. The 1908 election was decided, in part, on the postcards printed and sent out. The Suffrage Moment also benefited greatly from postcards as women would make and send them out, using them as propaganda to get people on board for their movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/10\/Our-Views-at-Gloucester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1973\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/10\/Our-Views-at-Gloucester.jpg\" alt=\"our-views-at-gloucester\" width=\"156\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>Lisa Tickner, a British Suffragist, noted that the pictorial postcard was &#8220;possibly the great vehicle for messages of the new urban proletariat between 1900 and 1914\u2019 (it was cheap to buy and to post, simple to use, and quick to arrive in an age of frequent postal deliveries).\u201d Postcards were displayed on coffee tables inside houses, women would join postcard clubs\u00a0and subscribed to postcard journals, so of course both the suffrage and anti-suffrage movement used postcards\u00a0to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>About 4500 postcards were\u00a0produced using a suffrage theme. They would use real photos of the suffragists in parades and fighting for their rights. This was used in tandem with written messages about the importance of suffrage as well. These women used something popular at the time to further their cause, as modern feminists use social media today. The anti-suffrage movement also teamed up with the big\u00a0commercial postcard companies to combat the movement, showing suffragists as\u00a0humorous and harmless.<\/p>\n<p>To the\u00a0commercial postcard companies&#8217; dismay, the Suffragists&#8217; efforts prevailed and the 19th\u00a0amendment was ratified in 1920.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Suffrage postcards here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.uni.edu\/palczews\/NEW%20postcard%20webpage\/Postcard%20index.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postcards, though now considered a novelty, were considered to be of the upmost social importance during the early 20th century. The 1908 election was decided, in part, on the postcards printed and sent out. The Suffrage Moment also benefited greatly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/voting-habits-suffrage-postcards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/10\/Our-Views-at-Gloucester.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}