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The Day Book, Chicago, April 4, 1912

The “Dorothy” bag, the latest receptacle for Milady’s knickknacks. The bag came into unenviable notoriety, when it was conspicuously carried by thousands of militant English suffragettes in their smashing campaign. They found the “Dorothy” the most convenient kind of handbag in which to carry stones and hide hammers.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1896 She may win the rights she’s after, she may make us don her dress, An’ ignore our lusty kickin’ an’ our rantings of distress; An’ although we swear an’ mutter, the result is always this...   High-res

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1896

She may win the rights she’s after,
she may make us don her dress,
An’ ignore our lusty kickin’ an’ our rantings of distress;
An’ although we swear an’ mutter, the result is always this -
Ruther’n we should do without her 
We
Will
Take
Her
As
She 
Is!

Matrimony; : or, Good Advice to the Ladies to Keep Single, 1739 In which are painted, in very lively Colours, the Pictures of many terrible HUSBANDS, both at Court, and in the City; particularly of one whose WIFE is now suing our a DIVORCE, on...   High-res

Matrimony; : or, Good Advice to the Ladies to Keep Single, 1739

In which are painted, in very lively Colours, the Pictures of many terrible HUSBANDS, both at Court, and in the City; particularly of one whose WIFE is now suing our a DIVORCE, on Account of his Unnatural Abuses.