The Awakening
Henry Mayer · 1915
Why it's great
A woman in a golden gown, a symbol of Liberty, strides across a map of the United States in which the states where women could vote glow in gold. Henry Mayer's cartoon, published in 1915 in Puck magazine, shows the suffrage movement spreading from the West.
🏛️ Part of history
Votes for Women (1848–1928) — A woman in a golden gown, a symbol of Liberty, strides across a map of the United States in which the states where women could vote glow in gold.
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Henry Mayer, nicknamed Hy Mayer, was a cartoonist born in Worms, Germany, in 1868. He moved to the United States, where he became a popular cartoonist for Puck magazine and a pioneer of animated cartoons. He lived in New York and died in 1954.
