Women--Social life and customs

Print shows a vignette cartoon with scenes of colonial men and women working at domestic and blue collar chores and jobs, leading to a scene with upper class women, each clutching an approved “Family Tree.” At center is a poem of four stanzas describing the pride that the upper class take in their ancestors, working men and women though they may have been. The final stanza encourages the “farmers’ wives who tend the Western garden rows” not to despair, because they may yet find themselves to be “some blue-bloods forebears, too.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-09-27

Two elegantly dressed women sit in a stylized environment, waiting for two men who are walking up a path toward them.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-04-04

The Queen of Hearts on a playing card, with the face of a woman, possibly Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, is holding in her hands a man wearing a tuxedo and top hat.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-03-28

The illustration shows four elderly women. Three are sitting on a park bench “Reserved for Ladies.” The other is standing nearby. One of them is reading from a magazine or newspaper. Birds are feeding on crumbs at their feet.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-03-21

A well-dressed couple walks together on a windy day. Many wind-blown hats fill the air around them, yet they manage to keep theirs in place.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-03-07

A group of women colorfully dressed and with their hair in the latest fashions appear with a couple who distinguishes itself by wearing black and white clothing and conventional hairstyles. Caption: “Isn’t that Circe Smith the unconventional little thing! She’s come in her own hair!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-02-28

A woman and a man sit in chairs at the theater. Caption: “Eyes have they, but they see not.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-01-31

Two well dressed men wearing top hats admire a beautiful young woman wearing a fur-trimmed red shawl and a hat with a small pine bough attached. Includes a lengthy notice “from Puck’s new management to Puck’s old friends!” about planned improvements for the future of the magazine.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-01-14

Print shows an elderly woman showing paintings of her ancestors to a young woman; she explains to the young woman that her husband has no ancestors and that he complained about paying for hers.

Caption: Mrs. Newrich–These are my ancestors.
Mrs. Upperten–And your husband’s?
Mrs. Newrich–He hasn’t got any! Why, he even kicked about paying for mine!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Women, interspersed among flowers, are engaged in various activities, such as social work, dancing, attending the theater, and as brides. The accompanying verse begins with the stanza, “O city flowers, what kin are you / To country children of sun and dew? / Hot-house-bred wantons, glad to be sold / To bloom and be sweet for Sin and Gold!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1886-01-06

A young man and a young woman are ice skating. The man tries to kiss or embrace her, but she deftly uses her muff to block his advance. Caption: Vigorous opposition to grasping monopoly.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-02-16

Print shows three fashionably dressed women helping a drunken man on the sidewalk, one holds a paper that states “Total Abstinence Pledge – Sign and Be Saved”; a pathway leads toward the “Drunkard’s Nursery and Palatial Asylum”. Behind them, up the sidewalk, a woman carrying an infant is turned away from the “Woman’s Home” where a window is labeled “Charity”. A young bootblack gestures toward her.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1881-09-21

A steely-faced young man drives an automobile, looking straight ahead. A beautiful young woman snuggles next to him, looking up at him.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915-01-02

A young man is at the wheel of a sled, racing down a steep mountainside in winter. Sitting behind him are another young man and a young woman who are holding each other in an embrace. Caption: Man at the Wheel — Hold tight back there!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-12-12

A young woman sits behind the steering wheel of an automobile.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-11-14

Illustration shows a bust portrait of a young woman, facing front, juxtaposed to a vibrant night-life scene in a city.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-11-21

A young couple stand in an embrace in a wooded area during autumn, with Cupid perched on a branch holding a cluster of red leaves over their heads. Caption: And yet how many there are who run by Cupid’s block-signal.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-10-08

Four fashionably dressed young women gather around a well-dressed man.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-10-01

A shapely, beautiful young woman stands on the beach between two male admirers, whose wives look on with disapproval from the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-08-27

Several well-dressed women walk their pet dogs.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-01-08