Women's Suffrage: The Phyllis and Jim Bratt CollectionPOSTCARDS - AMERICANAlbum containing c.295 American suffrage and anti-suffrage postcards, the majority colour-printed humorous cards, some photographic, many written and posted, loosely inserted in pockets 4 per page in a postcard album, various dates, mostly early 20th centuryFootnotesExtensive collection of American postcards, including: 22 in the 'Blot on the Escutcheon/The Ballot is Denied to Woman' series by Cargill Company (one slightly faded, others fine), and 5 in the 'United Equal Suffrage States' series; 24 art nouveau-style cards by Walter Wellman (15 in 'The Suffragette' series, 1909, 4 of 'The Weaker Sex', 1908, and 5 others); 14 by Dunston-Weiler, 1909; 11 by S. Bergman ('Votes for Women' series, 1912); 10 by Barton & Spoooner (featuring a girl wearing a sash); 12 by Cobb. X Shinn for Taylor, Platt & Co., 1912; 23 various Valentine cards; 6 posed photographic cards tiled 'Where Women Vote [etc]'; approximately 20 photographic or RPPCs including 2 original Leet Brothers cards, together and an envelope of reprints. The many posted cards include one written by Alice Stone Blackwell to her fellow suffragist Agnes Edna Ryan ("Shall try to send a good batch of stuff for the papers", postmarked 9 August, 1913), and another to Ryan from an anonymous friend ("One of the two Pankhurst tickets which Miss Reilly & I had bought was promised to a friend... I am sorry", 14 November 1913).Saleroom noticesPlease note there are 291 postcards in the lot.
Women's Suffrage: The Phyllis and Jim Bratt CollectionPOSTCARDS - AMERICANAlbum containing c.295 American suffrage and anti-suffrage postcards, the majority colour-printed humorous cards, some photographic, many written and posted, loosely inserted in pockets 4 per page in a postcard album, various dates, mostly early 20th centuryFootnotesExtensive collection of American postcards, including: 22 in the 'Blot on the Escutcheon/The Ballot is Denied to Woman' series by Cargill Company (one slightly faded, others fine), and 5 in the 'United Equal Suffrage States' series; 24 art nouveau-style cards by Walter Wellman (15 in 'The Suffragette' series, 1909, 4 of 'The Weaker Sex', 1908, and 5 others); 14 by Dunston-Weiler, 1909; 11 by S. Bergman ('Votes for Women' series, 1912); 10 by Barton & Spoooner (featuring a girl wearing a sash); 12 by Cobb. X Shinn for Taylor, Platt & Co., 1912; 23 various Valentine cards; 6 posed photographic cards tiled 'Where Women Vote [etc]'; approximately 20 photographic or RPPCs including 2 original Leet Brothers cards, together and an envelope of reprints. The many posted cards include one written by Alice Stone Blackwell to her fellow suffragist Agnes Edna Ryan ("Shall try to send a good batch of stuff for the papers", postmarked 9 August, 1913), and another to Ryan from an anonymous friend ("One of the two Pankhurst tickets which Miss Reilly & I had bought was promised to a friend... I am sorry", 14 November 1913).Saleroom noticesPlease note there are 291 postcards in the lot.
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