The advent of women at the polls, 1929

Two sophisticated and fashionable ladies in heels, cloche hats and fur trimmed coats alight from a taxi at a polling station where they will vote for the first time in the General Election of May 1929. This photograph was accompanied by a caption which may be either humorous, or misogynistically sceptical, but it refers to several ladies who died after the mentally and phyically overwhelming effort of casting their vote

Cloche Electoral Electorate Flapper Flappers Heels Polling Polls Sophisticated Taxis Voters Voting

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