Item 31553 - Suffrage campaign poster, Portland, 1917
- Item 31553 - Suffrage campaign poster, Portland, 1917
- Contributed by Maine Historical Society
- Item 31553
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Image Info A poster in support of a referendum to approve a constitutional amendment to allow Maine women to vote depicts the anti-suffrage women as "slackers" who do not want to accept the responsibility of voting.
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The group opposed to woman suffrage used language similar to that in the poster, arguing that suffrage is not a "right."
The artist is William Ourcadie, pseudonym for Frederic W. Freeman.