"The age of brass. or the triumphs of Woman's rights", an 1869 lithograph print published by Currier and Ives (152 Nassau St., New York).
This is a satirical caricature of the possible consequences of giving women the vote. The two candidates "Susan Sharp-tongue the Celebrated Man-Tamer" (dressed in circus-performer costume) and "Miss Hangman for Sheriff" canvass for women's votes (in 1869 women couldn't vote anywhere in the United States, except as a newly-established experimental innovation in the remote territory of Wyoming). At the right, a sharp-featured woman brandishes a fist threateningly at her husband, who holds the baby. In the 1860s chignons were a fashionable hairstyle worn by most women and often supplemented with a roll of artificial hair. The artist has caricatured this hairstyle.
Bibliographic information found on the LoC site ([1]):
TITLE: The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights
CALL NUMBER: PGA - Currier & Ives--Age of Brass: (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-1921 (color film copy slide) LC-USZ62-700 (b&w film copy neg.)
SUMMARY: Women lining up at a ballot box. Man holding a baby at the end of the line.
MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869.
CREATOR: Currier & Ives.
NOTES: Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0067.
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 379.
SUBJECTS:
- Women--Political activity--1860-1870.
- Relations between the sexes--1860-1870.
- Queues--1860-1870.
- Voting--1860-1870.
- Women's suffrage--1860-1870.
FORMAT: Lithographs 1860-1870.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
DIGITAL ID: (color film copy slide) cph 3b49804 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49804 (b&w film copy neg) cph 3a04616 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a04616
CARD #: 90708465 |