国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 12月23日 23時31分

This holiday postcard came with an extra gift—a one-year subscription to the Woman's Journal.

Founded in 1870 by Lucy Stone, co-founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association, the Woman's Journal was one of leading periodicals of the woman suffrage movement. Beginning with its first issue, the Woman's Journal's editors described it as a "Weekly Newspaper. . .devoted to the interests of Woman, to her educational, industrial, legal and political Equality, and especially to her right of Suffrage." The paper kept subscribers up-to-date on the latest news, publishing debates, speeches, and notes from women's conventions.

Postcards like this were one of the principal weapons in suffragists' political arsenal in the early 1900s. Technological innovations made it affordable for organizations like the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to create and distribute tens of thousands of postcards like the one above. Although the postcards' messages ranged from the serious to the sentimental, most tried to raise public awareness of women's fight for the vote. In the postcard above, the gifts in Santa bag include "Votes for Women"—one of the movement's most popular slogans. The postcard was donated to our museum by Edna L. Stantial, who worked as NAWSA's archivist.

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