The summit at last, suffrage cartoon

In this engraving from the New Zealand Graphic, 21 July 1894, a woman holding a flag proclaiming ‘Perfect Political Equality’ is helped up onto the ’Parliamentary Heights’ by a man. In the background a flag reading ‘Women’s Franchise’ flies atop a mountain labelled ‘1893’ (the year New Zealand women gained the vote).

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Political and constitutional timeline
Women and the vote

Keywords

suffrage campaign

women in politics

cartoon

Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0126-1894-01
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'The summit at last, suffrage cartoon', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/the-summit-at-last, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 8-Jun-2015