{"id":6219,"date":"2014-03-11T17:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T21:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2014-03-11T17:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T21:21:50","slug":"womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Katherine Milhous, the artist who designed this postcard image, is remembered today as an illustrator and author of children\u2019s books.\u00a0 Her most notable book remains The Egg Tree<\/i>, which won the Caldecott Award in 1951.\u00a0 But before she began her long career in children\u2019s publishing, young Katherine was an advocate for Woman Suffrage, as demonstrated by her cartoon design on this postcard.\u00a0 Produced and copyrighted in 1915, when she was just 21 years old, this card testifies to a young woman\u2019s struggle to make her own way in a world that offered few options for women in the professions.<\/p>\n

Katherine\u2019s early struggles, and her later success as a graphic artist, were advanced by the many other women advocates for suffrage around the world.\u00a0 In fact, the copy of this postcard found at the John Hay Library was used by two members of the Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union in Pennsylvania — Katherine\u2019s home state — to communicate their success in organizing the town of Yardley to the suffrage cause.<\/p>\n

The entire postcard, and its message, form part of the John Hay Library\u2019s extensive holdings on the temperance movement, which document the long struggle of women to achieve the political capacity to address the ruinous effects of addiction on the lives of women and children.\u00a0 The postcard is available online as part of the Library\u2019s Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition<\/a> digital collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katherine Milhous, the artist who designed this postcard image, is remembered today as an illustrator and author of children\u2019s books.\u00a0 Her most notable book remains The Egg Tree, which won the Caldecott Award in 1951.\u00a0 But before she began her long career in children\u2019s publishing, young Katherine was an advocate for Woman Suffrage, as demonstrated … Women’s History Month<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}