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Engraving by Fredrikke S. Palmer

Image: 17.9 cm x 12.5 cm; whole page: 21.7 cm x 15.2 cm

Cover illustration of the pamphlet, The Torch Bearer: A Look Forward and Back at the Woman’s Journal, the Organ of the Woman’s Movement by Agnes E. Ryan. (Boston: Woman’s Journal and Suffrage News, 1916).


Fredrikke S. Palmer, a Norwegian immigrant, was the art director and a cartoonist for The Woman’s Journal. She was one of the few cartoonists during the suffrage era to make the argument that the vote would have direct economic benefits for working women.