Let Loose them tides of Goodness

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This piece was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. It was printed on Crane's Lettra #220, which is tree free, thick and entirely luxurious. This was printed with a combination of antique wood and lead type, on an antique letterpress that is older than a woman's right to vote. At 6" x 6", it's perfectly framable.

This piece was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. It was printed on Crane's Lettra #220, which is tree free, thick and entirely luxurious. This was printed with a combination of antique wood and lead type, on an antique letterpress that is older than a woman's right to vote. At 6" x 6", it's perfectly framable.

This phrase is from a poem originally published in the New York Times. Here is an excerpt, which is also printed on the backing of this beautiful letterpress piece.

Now by her ever-changing form, di

viner than of you, An’ by her superstructure, which she

cal’s her pompydore, By all her charmin’ arts an’ wiles, an’

by the great Horn Spoon,

She ought to have the ballot, an’ she ought to have it soon.

Her husband an’ her father, an’ the

other powers of sin Are hold’n’ back the golden age--

that’s why it don’t begin;

Let loose them tides of goodness that

are waitin’ to be hurled By the power of Votin’ Women on a

poor defenseless world.

Author Unknown, New York Times 1908-1909

While all women were granted the right to vote in 1920, women of color continued to fight the widely spread and racially motivated voter suppression tactics employed against them until the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. I celebrate the initial victory in 1920 while holding space for the fact that the fight for equality was not finished then and it is not finished now.