((PKG)) SUFFRAGISTS EXHIBIT
((Banner:
A Little History
Access – The Vote))
((Reporter: Julie Taboh))
((Camera: Adam Greenbaum))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((Music))
((Popup Banner:
After decades of struggle, US women gained the right
to vote in 1920.
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery chronicled
the American suffragist movement))
((Kate Clarke Lemay, Curator, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery))
Suffragists were really looking for any kind of way to get
out the message that if women broke out of the
domestic sphere, it was okay. So there is a cookbook
that they produced which I think is kind of interesting.
So like the ballot box, this exhibition really hopes to
flesh out some of the context of the era by using the
portraits to drive the narrative but then also by kind of
filling in sort of the feeling of the era with these material
cultural objects.
((NATS))
((Kate Clarke Lemay, Curator, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery))
The movement became very visual and employed this
kind of visual literacy that people were developing from
illustrated magazines on, from the 1890s on, and so
these posters are about women's suffrage and equality
and sort of the message being made very visual
through a winged petasos hat or a double-sided axe
and these are allegorical symbols really that date back
to the Greek era, the ancient Greece.
((Kate Clarke Lemay, Curator, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery))
The posters create kind of a different kind of
understanding about women's freedom, women's
citizenship rights that viewers would have had in a way
that was different from reading a book or reading a
hand bill or reading a text.
((Pop-Up Banner: US women gained the vote in 1920
with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the
Constitution))
((Kate Clarke Lemay, Curator, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery))
The suffrage movement is one of the longest reform
movements in American history. There is no question
that it is among the most important stories in American
history.
((Banner:
A Little History
Access – The Vote))
((Reporter: Julie Taboh))
((Camera: Adam Greenbaum))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((Music))
((Popup Banner:
After decades of struggle, US women gained the right
to vote in 1920.
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery chronicled
the American suffragist movement))
((Kate Clarke Lemay, Curator, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery))
Suffragists were really looking for any kind of way to get
out the message that if women broke out of the
domestic sphere, it was okay. So there is a cookbook
that they produced which I think is kind of interesting.
So like the ballot box, this exhibition really hopes to
flesh out some of the context of the era by using the
portraits to drive the narrative but then also by kind of
filling in sort of the feeling of the era with these material
cultural objects.
((NATS))
((Kate Clarke Lemay, Curator, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery))
The movement became very visual and employed this
kind of visual literacy that people were developing from
illustrated magazines on, from the 1890s on, and so
these posters are about women's suffrage and equality
and sort of the message being made very visual
through a winged petasos hat or a double-sided axe
and these are allegorical symbols really that date back
to the Greek era, the ancient Greece.
((Kate Clarke Lemay, Curator, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery))
The posters create kind of a different kind of
understanding about women's freedom, women's
citizenship rights that viewers would have had in a way
that was different from reading a book or reading a
hand bill or reading a text.
((Pop-Up Banner: US women gained the vote in 1920
with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the
Constitution))
((Kate Clarke Lemay, Curator, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery))
The suffrage movement is one of the longest reform
movements in American history. There is no question
that it is among the most important stories in American
history.
