Vintage Anti-Suffrage Posters & Propaganda
Thursday, September 29, 2011
With the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920, women were formally given the right to vote: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote are not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” This was the culmination of over a century of hotly contested advocacy and debate in the American public on women’s suffrage. Below are some examples of anti-suffrage posters and illustration with most focusing on the ruinous consequences for the American household and family if women were given the right to vote:
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Awww, what an unusual marking on that puppy
Sunday, September 25, 2011
A puppy has been born in Japan with a large, clear, love-heart-shaped pattern in his coat.
What could be cuter than a puppy? How about a puppy with a heart-shaped marking on his coat? (Or, more specifically, a puppy with a marking that resembles the way a heart is typically rendered in popular culture.)
Such a critter was born in the northern Japanese city of Odate in
This short video clip provides some glimpses of
In August 2009, Heart-kun's mother gave birth to a litter of four puppies, one of which, like his older brother, also bears a distinctive heart-shaped marking on its coat. Emiko named this little fellow
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