Dunston-Weiler, a New York-based postcard production company, produced a twelve part suffragette series of postcards in 1909. The brightly colored cards have been studied extensively by communications scholar Catherine Palczewski. The postcards draw heavily on the existing fears of many Americans in the early twentieth century. The enfranchisement of women would compromise gender divisions. If women engaged in a masculine activity -- i.e. voting, they may descend into moral decay. Women would begin smoking and drinking. They would forego motherhood and become harlots.

The shift to American culture could be so fundamental that even Uncle Sam, an understood emblem of Americanism, could be feminized. Women would become criminal -- like this woman who is buying votes. On the other hand, women would take exclusively male jobs. Women would be essential masculine, and to fill the gap that women left behind, men would become feminized.