This map, drawn by cartoonist Henry Mayer and published by Puck magazine in 1915, shows the progress of suffragism in the United States.

Women's suffrage was first approved in Wyoming in 1869, followed by Utah in 1870 and Colorado in 1893. By 1915, when this map was published, women's suffrage had been established throughout the western United States and continued to advance unstoppably.

With this idea in mind, Henry Mayer depicts Lady Liberty advancing from the west, waving a cape emblazoned with the words «Votes for Women». In her hand she carries a torch with which she will light the way for all women who are still in darkness, which is how the author represents all the states that had not yet approved women's suffrage.

The text at the bottom is a poem by Alice Duer Miller, which reiterates women's struggle to achieve equal rights with men, going far beyond the women's suffrage that was the focus of this map.

It is one of the most iconic maps of the suffrage movement and its propaganda and, in fact, remains one of the most reproduced maps in the history of the United States.

Sources

• The Awakening