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lahistory:

A hundred years ago, on October 10, 1911, California voters passed an amendment giving women the right. California was the sixth state to give women the right to vote, nine years before the 19th Amendment enfranchised women nationally. From the California Secretary of State, “This poster was designed by Bertha Margaret Boye for the 1911 California campaign and was probably the most popular poster produced during the Amer woman suffrage movement.” 

This is beautiful, but why is it the only Bertha Margaret Boye piece that anyone has even referred to on the internet?

Also, I’m sure the aging of the paper makes this look a lot less exclusively “saintly pallor of the lady who wants to vote” than it would normally, but I’m actually very impressed by how un-Greco-Roman this is. (Compare, for example, this.) She looks like a spirit of California who isn’t actually a spirit of Athens secretly visiting. For god’s sake the bottom of her robe is on decorative fire. But you can still see the pillars — out of perspective, squared-off — behind her.