A great friend gave me the lovely gift of a Suffragist ornament the other day: I prominently placed it on my tree and went out to look for more. We were going to have no ornaments this year, just lights (actually, I didn’t even want a tree, or lights, but my husband did), and there is no way I was not going to put that lady on my tree and she needed company. It seems appropriate to go out of this year the same way I went in, in the company of Suffragists. I’m sorry that the ladies did not get their due in this challenging year, but I certainly learned a lot about the Suffragists in general and Salem women in particular on all these #SalemSuffrageSaturdays: two more to go! One thing I learned about the Suffrage movement in general, in both the United States and Britain, is how sophisticated it was in terms of visual messaging: the colors, the images, the products. Everything they produced or inspired still looks good.
Suffragist Christmas Ornaments (+ Joan of Arc, a very important Suffragist symbol herself) fron the Peabody Essex Museum Shop and RosieCentral .
Christmas cards from the Museum of London and the Ann Lewis Suffrage Collection (a great resource!)
Tea Towels from the Radical Tea Towel Co.
December 12th, 2020 at 5:41 pm
Hi Donna,
What a delightful collection of Suffragist holiday ornaments. Who knew? They provide an appropriate ending to a great year of women’s stories.
Wishing you and your readers a safe, “Dr. Fauci” Christmas season.
December 12th, 2020 at 8:45 pm
I love your ornaments! Yes, suffragists really did get overshadowed this year. Too bad.