"The Awakening" (Puck centerfold, 20 February 1915)
A torch-bearing woman labelled 'Votes for Women' strides eastward across a map of the United States, the western states shaded where women already vote, toward women reaching out to her. The tell: a map and a Liberty-style figure turn state-by-state lawmaking into a procession that seems certain to go on.
Puck Publishing Corporation ran this centerfold on 20 February 1915, with a poem by Alice Duer Miller beneath. A torch-bearing woman labelled 'Votes for Women' strides eastward across a map of the United States, the western states shaded where women already vote, toward women reaching out to her. Bandwagon and transfer are tagged: the map and a Liberty-style figure turn state-by-state lawmaking into a procession that seems certain to continue.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- February 20, 1915
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Puck Publishing Corporation, New York
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Elections and party politics
- Event
- US Woman Suffrage Campaign
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 10, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1915, before 1931); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 98502844. "The Awakening" (Puck centerfold, 20 February 1915)
