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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Editorial cartoonist Nina Allender needs you


This past weekend, I met a woman Washington political cartoonist I hadn't known before. Not in person - Nina Allender died in 1957 - but her drawings live on in the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum on Capitol Hill. The Museum has about 20 of her cartoons on display - but houses over 100 more. You can see them online. Allender's sex is important because she was a single theme cartoonist on suffrage and the vote for American women.

The Museum is holding a fundraising drive to conserve Allender's cartoons. They're asking people to sponsor a drawing at $250. Their website lists the reasons why and the benefits to you: Many of these cartoons, sketches on paper, are critically in need of conservation. Conservation includes cleaning, repairing any losses of the paper, and stabilization of the original drawings. Your contribution to our Allender fund can help underwrite the cost of conserving the cartoons to preserve these images for future generations to view. The benefits of sponsorship include: Recognition of your adoption displayed alongside the cartoon in the Museum and if the original is lent out for exhibit; An 8 x 10 print of the adopted Allender; An adoption certificate.


Who was Nina Allender? According to the Museum website:
Nina Allender was the official cartoonist for the National Woman’s Party. She contributed over 150 cartoons to the suffrage campaign, mostly original drawings created for The Suffragist, the weekly publication of the National Woman’s Party from 1913 until 1921, and later its successor, Equal Rights, published from 1923 until 1954.

Allender’s cartoons were instrumental in changing the mainstream image of the suffragist as unattractive, selfish and rowdy to one who was young, slender and energetic – a capable woman with an intense commitment to the cause. This suffragist image, titled the “Allender Girl”, appeared in many of Allender’s cartoons. Today she is considered one of the most significant political artists of the era, capturing the spirited struggle for women’s rights as it happened and providing a unique window into this intense chapter in women’s history.

Allender gave the majority of the cartoons she drew during this time to the National Woman’s Party; at this point it is believed that the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum houses the only collection of Nina Allender cartoons.


The Museum's biography probably overstates her importance as a cartoonist, but last year Slate Magazine had a small feature on her - Nina Allender's Suffrage Cartoons by Elizabeth Weingarten. Overall, I think Allender could use some wider recognition.

The Museum itself is having some financial difficulties and after December 31, 2012, will close for the winter except by appointment. They hope to reopen for regular hours in the spring, but as of now, if you're interested in seeing her work in person, you've got a month left to visit. If sponsoring a cartoon is a financial stretch for you, the gift shop sells 9 postcards and 2 magnets of her cartoons. I've got one of each now.

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Some more pictures of the Sewall-Belmont House can be seen here.

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Oct 26: Martha Kenned on suffragist cartoonist Nina Allender

Martha Kennedy, formerly of the Library of Congress, has an online talk next Wednesday, October 26, at 2 p.m., on suffragist cartoonist Nina Allender and the Library's collection of her cartoon drawings and hope some of you can attend. You can register at the link below: 

Researching Women and Gender at the Library: Introducing the Nina Allender Political Cartoon Collection

Wednesday, October 26th, 2022, 2 pm (EDT)
Register: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_bohTiGzCRaSjVb-AJyfOJw

Friday, June 10, 2016

June 12: Nina Allender documentary coming to C-Span

Political Cartoonist Nina Allender

 Jun 8, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2c7Por-TQ

Full program airs on Sunday, June 12 at 6 and 10 pm ET

Nina Allender worked as a political cartoonist for the National Woman's Party from 1914 until 1927, contributing over 150 cartoons for women's suffrage.



Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Sewall-Belmont House, and apparently Nina Allender's cartoons, become National Monument

Today, the House, and presumably the cartoons, became a National Monument, under the Park Service.

Here's the Washington Post on it, and here's the White House, which says, "help preserve an extensive archival collection that documents the history, strategies, tactics and accomplishments of the movement to secure women's suffrage and equal rights in the United States and across the globe." so I guess the cartoons were transferred too.

The new Belmont-Paul Monument is well-worth visiting. I saw it with my daughter in 2012 and was quite impressed by it.

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Nina Allender's cartoons featured in the NY Times

Allender's cartoons are featured in a historical site on Capitol Hill.

Fighting for the Vote With Cartoons

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Monday, October 26, 2020

Library of Congress buys Nina Allender's cartoons

Women's history shrine donates trove of artifacts to Library of Congress and National Park Service [in print as New home for women's history]

Washington Post Oct. 26, 2020 p. B1, 4

"The library also purchased the party's set of 167 political cartoons by women's rights artist Nina E. Allender. A spokesman declined to reveal the price. The cartoons arrived in July."

Sunday, November 03, 2019

Nina Allender on exhibit in Ohio

We've mentioned DC's suffragette cartoonist Nina Allender here in the past. Some of her work is on display in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum's new exhibit.

 

Innovative women cartoonists get their due in 'Ladies First'  
Joel Oliphint                            
Associate Editor, Columbus Alive Nov 1, 2019

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

167 Nina Allender cartoons go to the Library of Congress

Library of Congress Acquires Archives of the National Woman's Party

Well, they really just moved from one side of Capitol Hill to the other, but they should all be out of copyright and instantly (relatively speaking) available to the public.

Friday, November 22, 2019

Nina Allender in Billy Ireland exhibit profiled in Smithsonian blog

Celebrating a Century of Women's Contributions to Comics and Cartoons
A new exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment features innovative illustrations from the suffragist movement to today
By Theresa Machemer
November 20, 2019

Friday, March 29, 2013

Nina Allender exhibit at Purdue

The cartoons are on loan from the Sewall-Belmont house in DC.
 
Black Cultural Center presents history through cartoons
 Mar. 28, 2013