Equality is the Sacred Law of Humanity, c. 1903-1905
The use of symbols drawn from ancient Greece and Rome appealed to conservative values and asserted the respectability of the suffragist movement. A woman in profile wears a winged petasos helmet as a way to illustrate her role as a divine messenger of equality, while the bundle of sticks around an axe symbolizes strength through unity. Egbert Jacobson, a graphic designer and a leader in color theory and typography, was married to a prominent suffragist, Franc Delzell Jacobson--and he, like many men, supported her cause.
Lithograph by Egbert C. Jacobson, Courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University