Suffrage Cartoons

"Votes for Women" Cartoon
In this cartoon, the women of the states without the vote are reaching for "Votes for Women" and she is striding across the states where women have the vote. The cartoon is from a drawing of Hy Mayer, first published February 20, 1915.

Women's Sphere
The cartoon makes the argument that if women are given more important matters -- like politics -- to worry about, they will no longer be vain and frivolous.

Election Day
Yet another anti-suffrage cartoon playing on the idea of role reversal. A father has to take care of the screaming children while wife goes off to vote.

Victoria Woodhull as Mrs Satan
Thomas Nast depicts Victoria Woodhull, a woman suffrage activist, as Mrs. Satan, holding a sign "Be Saved by Free Love."

GOP and Women's Suffrage
A 21st century take on women's suffrage, from a time when the Republicans can't seem to get along with women.

Suffrage Cartoon: John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill is here depicted making a path for women at the polls.

Suffrage Movement
Did the women's suffrage activists win the vote for women to be able to vote for Sarah Palin? A 2008 political cartoon asks that question.