SOURCE: Page 42 of "200 Years of Political Campaign Collectibles" by Mark Warda (2005).

In the original stamp design, a battle-axe is depicted in the background. By including it in a design calling for women's suffrage, the stamp's artist reclaimed the symbol of the "battle-axe," a derogatory term for "aggressive" women, by using it to symbolize women's tenacious pursuit of equality.

Title: Phosphorus and Hesperus Artist: Evelyn de Morgan Year: 1881 - "Phosphorus is rising, his torch held erect, heralding the morning which is lightening the sky behind him."

"The torch is a common emblem of both enlightenment and hope, thus the Statue of Liberty, formally named Liberty Enlightening the World, lifts her torch." - Wielding our strength as battle-axe women is important. Remembering to illuminate the trails we have blazed towards equality, for the women who follow, is equally important.

Title: The Love Potion Artist: Evelyn de Morgan Year: 1903 - "Instead of depicting the figure as a conventional sorceress, as was traditional in the nineteenth century, de Morgan portrays the woman as a scholar. She is painted as an intellectual and ambitious woman." - "Love Potion" by Evelyn de Morgan beautifully illustrates a simple, yet rarely acknowledged, truth: a woman is never any one, single thing. Metaphorically, de Morgan created the face of every woman.

"Athena has been used throughout Western history as a symbol of freedom and democracy."

Photo Title: Pregnant migrant woman living in California squatter camp. Kern County Photographer: Dorothea Lange Year: 1936 (https://www.loc.gov/item/2017762877/)