Women’s History Month: A Wild Night in a Hansom Cab, 1895
With the approach of April Fool’s Month (one day is not nearly enough!), it seems appropriate to conclude this year’s Women’s History Month coverage, with a bit of silliness — Photo Funnies from the April 27th, 1895 issue of the New York City publication, The Standard. Click on the above & below pictures, to view [...]
Women’s History Month: More American Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
As this year’s Women’s History Month coverage approaches its end, we have one more round of Women’s Suffrage cartoons from 1913 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and better read the words within them. Above, from the May 1913 issue, artist Carey Orr depicts [...]
Women’s History Month: Women in the Military: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Although I’ve been unable to find a specific incident sparking the above cartoon by Robert Minor, Jr. (scanned from the February 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine), I imagine it possibly referencing a specific lecturer, known to readers of the time. The women depicted listening, are drawn possessing the strength of Suffragettes, fully capable of beating [...]
Women’s History Month: Women’s Wages: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Wage Inequity between the sexes — still an issue being fought today — has likely been with us since the invention of money, though it is eye-brow raising to see that a century ago, when most women had yet to achieve even the right to vote, and when most men were receiving barely a subsistence [...]
Women’s History Month: Canadian Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
From the February 1913 (above) and April 1913 (below) issues of Cartoons Magazine, Canadian male cartoonists Arthur G. Racey and Hunter chide American Suffragettes to leave Canadian women out of the struggle for equal rights, as they are happy without them… (Again, according to two male cartoonists.) Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
Women’s History Month: My Wife Turned Bloomer, circa 1851, by Watts Phillips
For today’s Women’s History Month posting, we present My Wife Turned Bloomer, a rare fold-out comic strip book by British comic artist Watts Phillips, published likely no earlier than 1850, and definitely no later than 1852. The term “bloomer” refers both to a style of women’s pants, and to the women who wore them, as [...]
Women’s History Month: Suffrage Cartoons in America: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
It’s back to the American Women’s Suffrage Movement, for today’s Women’s History posting. Above, from the January 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, artists Fred C. Nash, James E. Murphy, and Billy DeBeck, on attitudes involving the movement. Beneath, from December 1912, cartoonist Fontaine Fox, displaying another attitude. Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
Women’s History Month: British Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
While American Suffragettes were parading and demonstrating, their British counter-parts were adapting more radical tactics, such as throwing bricks through shop windows. What percent of British Suffragettes actually engaged in violent or destructive protest, versus non-violent demonstration, I don’t know. But even if just a small number, the anti-suffrage crowd on both sides of the [...]
Women’s History Month: Female Cartoonists 1913: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
What better way for us to begin Women’s History Month, than with a review of the (few) instances in which Cartoons Magazine focused the pages they regularly devoted upon cartoonists themselves, on women. In the monthly title’s first year-and-a-half, these are nearly all of the pages on or by women (we’ll show one next week, [...]
African American History Month: Higgins Soap, c1880s
To close out African American History Month, we present the following trade card (i.e., advertising cards) series, given away in the 1880′s by Higgins Soap. While it does have stereotyped dialect (and one use of “Sambo”), it otherwise (in my opinion) avoids a racist presentation. It’s especially refreshing, in comparison to other cartooned soap advertisements [...]
