TOO SHOCKING TO SHOW!

[james_davis_nicoll]

From a wikipedia article on women's suffrage in the United States:



WHAT IS THE "THIS" WIKIPEDIA CANNOT SHOW US?

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My l33t librarian skills, let me show you them

[zeborah]

I guessed waving suffrage placards - not quite, but close.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

[nelc.livejournal.com]

The final panel needs to be redrawn so that she's buying contraceptives.

Though that would be kinda the opposite of unsexing her....

[refugee50s.livejournal.com]

"unsexing"

Heh.

Actually, trying to put my head into the historical context there, I suspect that you might well argue that female-controlled contraception (The Pill, IUDs, spermicidal jelly, etc.) would indeed have been considered unsexing, in that it helped to relieve women of the major biological motive to fulfill traditional female roles. I think it did, certainly in the short term, but I don't think we'll really know how that will play out over the next two or three generations after we Boomers die off.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I suddenly remembered Lady MacBeth asking the powers that be to "unsex me now", so that she could properly do the things that needed to be done. In other words, to act like a man.

[refugee50s.livejournal.com]

Weird. It was an easy guess, given the context, but why did Wiki chop off the bottom? Scanning error?

And where did you find the whole thing? Tineye turns up nothing.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Bill Higgins found it for me.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Looks like a scanning error.

I don't know where Bill Higgins found it, but it's oft-reprinted in old-fashioned paper books about the women's suffrage movement.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I had superhuman help. Google Images now includes a "find pictures that resemble this one" function. Look for the little icon of a camera within the search-text bar.

This does what Tineye does (I love Tineye too) but Google seems to be better at it.

[tceisele.livejournal.com]

The Google Image Search can come up with some hilarious matches sometimes, too. I once dropped in a picture of a hairy caterpillar that I was trying to identify, and one of the hits was Ron Paul's eyebrow.

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

Tineye? Arrrgh, another awful joke Brandon Sanderson slipped into Mistborn.

[connactic.livejournal.com]

If you do a search on Google for "it doesn't unsex her", the first link is to some sort of digital archive at the University of Houston.

There, you can't see the picture all at once- you have to click on different areas of the cartoon to view that part (easier to see than to explain.)

So, whoever posted it just did a screen capture of the top part, and did not stitch together the rest- that might be against copyright in any event.

[owlmirror36.livejournal.com]

Use and Reproduction: This image is in the public domain and may be used freely.

[owlmirror36.livejournal.com]

All you have to do is follow the link on the Wikipedia page for the image itself, and then click on the bottom part of the thumbnail...

like this (http://digital.lib.uh.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fp15195coll33&CISOPTR=1069&DMSCALE=57.36138&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=0&DMOLDSCALE=9.16870&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&REC=1&DMROTATE=0&x=50&y=124).

Apparently the University of Houston Digital Library Image viewer has a window thingy that only shows parts of an image at higher resolutions. Why they tech does this, I do not know.

If you shrink it down to lower resolution, it shows the full image.

It also has the full provenance of the illustration.

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Title It doesn't unsex her...
Creator Milhouse, Katherine
Description A women's suffrage propoganda postcard countering the rhetoric that voting will make a woman masculine by taking on masculine roles.
Date 1915
Publisher National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co. Inc, New York
Genre postcards
Subject (AAT) political cartoons
Subject (LCSH) Suffragist--Texas; Women--Political activity--Texas; Women--Suffrage--Texas
Collection Women's Archives Minnie Fisher Cunningham Papers, 1914-1944 02/2006-010 http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=235
Repository University of Houston Libraries, Special Collections
Use and Reproduction This image is in the public domain and may be used freely. If publishing in print, electronically, or on a website, please use the citation link above. To request a higher resolution reproduction please use the Request High Res button above.
File name red_mfcun_201008_095.jpg

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Actually, the spelling of her name appears to be "Katherine Milhous" in many sources.

Here's a comment on a travel poster she designed: "Never have I come across a vintage poster that had a snarky comment already built-in."

[soon_lee]

Beat me to it.