and even more importantly we house all of our nina allender cartoons and all of our political cartoons in this space. so i've pulled out a few cartoons to show some additional facets of allender's work. this particular piece is fantastic. it's one of her earlier pieces. you can see it's quite large. it is a more of a poster than any of her other work. and you can really see the detail that she put into this. this is another one of those early pieces where she's talking about women workers, child labor, exploitation, the title of this work is child saving is womans work, votes for women. and it appeared, i believe, in a june issue, june of 1914 issue of the suffragist. but you can really see the factories here in the background and then the crowds, the line of women and children that are wrapped around. but this is also a great opportunity for us to talk a little bit about the materials that allender used to create these works. she often used graphite or charcoal to draw them. there are very few instances where allender uses color in any of her work. and i will show you in just a moment

about our collection of political cartoons by the national women's party official cartoonist, nina allender. the national women's party was the only party to boast an official cartoonist, and her work appeared on the cover of their publication "the suffragist" for more than 10 years. allender grew up in kansas. she was born in 1872. and her family actually moved to washington, d.c. around 1900. her mother was one of the first women employees at the department of the interior. and allender studied painting at the corcoran school of art here in washington dc with the intention of becoming an art -- here in d.c., with the intention of becoming an art teacher. she was a painter and loved to paint, and that was a big part of her identity. but she also worked for the government land office, so she recognized that painting would not pay the bills. she was president of the d.c. branch of the national american women suffrage association, and when alice paul came in 1912 with the intention of lobbying for the federal amendment, allender watched first with interest in this new woman. there is a great