Mock Polling Card Postcard for Peckham Bye Election
AssociatedAssociated with
Caroline Phillips
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1874 - 1956)
Date24 March 1908
Object NamePolling Card
Mediumcard and ink
ClassificationsSocieties
Dimensions13.9 × 8.8cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1988.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDMS082728
About MeThis is part of a collection of documents relating to Caroline Phillips (1874-1956), an Aberdonian journalist who was involved in the women's suffrage movement. The collection contains important correspondence between Phillips and key leaders in the suffrage movement, including Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst.POSTCARD
(post stamp)
Peckham S.O.S.E.
9PM MR 24 O8
[FRONT]
(handwritten)
facsimile of cards displayed at the polling
stations by women Municipal
electors at Peckham
Women's Freedom League (handwritten)
18, Buckingham Street, Strand WC To the Editor
Aberdeen Journal
Hon. Treas.-Mrs DESPARD Broad Street
Hon. Organiser-Mrs BILLINGTON Aberdeen
GRIEG
Hon. Sec.- Mrs HOW MARTYN, B.Sc.
Contributions may be sent to the
Hon. Treas. as above
Bye Election Committee,
196, High Street, Peckham.
[BACK]
VOTES FOR WOMEN
Peckham Bye—Election
Poll open from 8a.m. to 8pm.
Name
Your Polling No. is
Your Polling Station is
But because you are a WOMAN you
MAY NOT VOTE
Legislation without
Representation is Slavery
Taxation without
Representation is Tyranny
The Women's Freedom League earnestly invites you to take this card with you, and stand and show it outside your Polling station between the hours of 8a.m. and 8p.m.
printed and published by W.B. Gould, 298, Brockley Road, SE.
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage (ENWSS)
5 October 1907
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
23 December 1913
Harbour Photographer
1907
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
5 October 1907
The National Women's Social and Political Union (NWSPU)
21 September 1907
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (Aberdeen)
Caroline Phillips
