Illustration S.9.1     “About the Suffrage Riots” (Simplicissimus, 1908)

 

 

The caption reads: (Left): “The child is quiet. It needs nothing.” (Right): “The child is screaming. It gets nothing.”

 

Source: Thomas Theodor Heine, “Zu den Wahlrechtskrawallen,” Simplicissimus 12, Nr. 45 (3 February 1908): 733. Simplicissimus Online: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar.

 

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