Item 31557 - Promotion of woman suffrage poster, Portland, 1917
- Item 31557 - Promotion of woman suffrage poster, Portland, 1917
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- Item 31557
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Image Info The Suffrage Referendum League of Maine created numerous cartoon posters to promote a "yes" vote on the Sept. 10, 1917 referendum to amend Maine's constitution to allow women to vote.
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This poster discounts the anti suffrage idea that women's dependent status should exempt them from voting.
The artist is William Ourcadie, pseudonym for Frederic W. Freeman.
