A few weeks back, the Wisconsin Historical Society held their “Odd Wisconsin” exhibit, where they lay out various interesting Wisconsin historical artifacts for public inspection. The coolest thing there was a hand-written speech by Abe Lincoln that he delivered in Milwaukee in 1859, although I’m not sure how that counted as “odd.” It was mostly just awesome.
I chuckled at this 1912 anti-women’s suffrage poster, which claimed that allowing women to cast ballots would be doubling the “irresponsible vote.”
There was also an anti-suffrage poster (which I can’t find in the online collection) that depicted a woman juggling a baby, a frying pan, a broom, and a ballot. The implication was that we can’t expect women to be able to juggle all of those responsibilities and still be expected to vote. Just crazy.
March 25, 2009 at 3:46 pm
The implication was that we can’t expect women to be able to juggle all of those responsibilities and still be expected to vote. Just crazy.
Especially when the men did such a good job without those responsibilities. :}