Votes for Women

Deck manufactured by DeLarue and Company in 1910. What mak this deck historically signficant is that it is the only known deck produced by Emmeline Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union (WPSU) to support the suffragettes and the Votes For Women movement.

Its back design that carry the slogan “Votes for Women” surrounded by prison arrows, all in the Union’s symbolic colors of purple, green, and white. This deck was sold in WSPU shops throughout the country and through advertisements in the WSPU’s official paper, Votes for Women.