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"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 (of course 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. For some reason, the caricaturist imagines that feminists or manly women would wear grotesquely exaggerated hair chignons.

Edited version of image http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a04000/3a04600/3a04616u.tif found on Library of Congress website at [1]

For companion caricature, see Image:Age-of-Iron_Man-as-he-Expects-to-Be_1869.jpg .

Bibliographic information found on the LoC site ([2]):

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

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