Suffrage era postcards from the collection of author Carol Crossed, who is also of Adams, Mass., shared small views of history in honor of Women’s History Month at the Collier County Library in East Naples.
“The Woman Suffrage cause in the 19th and early 20th centuries, namely that women were citizens of the United States and had a right to shape the government and its laws through the vote, required being creative in means and message. In addition, communication both to the public and in the private sphere was essential. The postcard fulfilled those demands. The movement of women intent on getting the vote was literally an accelerated level of mobile ideology, a…..