The Awakening (1915)

Description: Cartoon showing a torch-bearing female, symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the East where women are reaching out to her. Printed below the cartoon is a poem by Alice Duer Miller.



Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Identifier: LC-USZC2-1206



Copyright: Public Domain

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