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Suffrage

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  • Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
  • Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901.
  • Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.
  • Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
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    • Pictures
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    Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

    Braakensiek, Joh. (Johan Coenraad), 1858-1940. | Date: 12 February 1893 | Reference: 17696i
    • Books

    Sex, honor and citizenship in early Third Republic France / Andrea Mansker.

    Mansker, Andrea, 1972- | Date: 2011
    • Books
    • Online

    The unexpurgated case against woman suffrage / by Almroth E. Wright.

    Wright, Almroth, 1861-1947. | Date: 1913
    • Ephemera

    The suffrage & the C.D. acts / C.M. Whitehead.

    Whitehead, C. M. | Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]
    • Pictures
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    Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.

    Tenniel, John, 1820-1914. | Date: [1867] | Reference: 35799i
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