Cartoon about women's suffrage, 1900

Cartoon about women's suffrage, 1900

Description

This black-and-white cartoon from the 17 November 1900 edition of the Queensland federated unions' newspaper The Worker features a caricature of an older woman leaning over a desk, harassing a cowering man seated on the other side. Demanding her promised vote and wielding an umbrella, the woman probably represents Emma Miller (1839-1917), a leading suffragette of the time. The artist has drawn the man as a caricature of the unsympathetic premier of the time, Robert Philp (1851-1922). The caption is: ''Here, you man! Where's that Vote you promised Me?''.

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