"The Age of Iron. Man as he Expects to be", an 1869 lithograph print published by Currier and Ives (152 Nassau St., New York).
This is a satirical anti-feminist caricature of a wife going out for an evening, leaving her husband to look after the baby at home and sew. The gender-role reversal extends to the servants, where the carriage-driving servants are female, while the one washing clothes is male (the opposite of the usual situation of the time).
Bibliographic information at LoC:
TITLE: The age of iron: Man as he expects to be
CALL NUMBER: PGA - Currier & Ives--Age of iron: (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-1922 (color film copy slide) LC-USZ62-701 (b&w film copy neg.)
SUMMARY: Husband sitting by a child in a cradle and sewing as a male servant does laundry. A well-dressed woman prepares to get into a carriage driven by another woman.
NOTES: Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0068.
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 379.
SUBJECTS:
Housework--1860-1870.
Relations between the sexes--1860-1870.
Men--Domestic life--1860-1870.
Women--Domestic life--1860-1870.
FORMAT: Lithographs 1860-1870.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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"The Age of Iron. Man as he Expects to be", an 1869 lithograph print published by Currier and Ives (152 Nassau St., New York). This is a satirical anti-feminist caricature of a wife going out for an evening, leaving her husband to look after the baby at