Map Showing Distribution of "Votes for Women"
- Title:
- Map Showing Distribution of "Votes for Women"
- Alternate Title:
- Map Showing Distribution of "Votes for Women"
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- San Diego Evening Tribune
- Other Creators:
- Associated Press, publisher
- Date:
- 1912
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2512.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2512_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1900 - 1919
- Subject:
- Deception/Distortion
Politics & Government
Suffrage - Measurement:
- 10 x 15 on page 58 x 43 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map accompanies a short article from the Associated Press regarding five states scheduled to vote in 1912 on amending their constitutions to permit voting by women. It is one of many maps in the collection using the spread of suffrage laws across the country to demonstrate the growing success of the movement. (For others, Search > "Suffrage.") The use of maps like this to "brand" the suffrage movement effectively has been called "the most extensive use of a single iconic map image for persuasive purposes in the United States." Dando 2010, 222; see generally Schulten 2021. There is detailed information on the origin and use of the suffrage map in the Notes for ID #1193 "Votes for Women a Success."
This particular map is unusual in the way it is colored. The earliest versions of the suffrage map were published in 1907 and 1908, and in those maps, the states that had adopted suffrage were colored black and the others white (or gray, in the case of partial suffrage). See ID ##1165; 2089. By 1911, the colors had been reversed. See ID #1169. "As a result, the map offers a visual form of the suffrage argument that the vote emancipates women (white associated with purity, virtue, freedom) while the lack of full emancipation keeps women shackled and 'in the dark' (black as uncleanness, unclarity, slavery)." Dando 226. It is unknown whether the map here was circulated by the Associated Press in Chicago along with the story or prepared by an unnamed artist at the San Diego Evening Tribune.
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- San Diego Evening Tribune, May 10, 1912
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.