Penny Richards' photos with the keyword: suffrage

Thrifted Samsonite traincase, upcycled with gesso, acrylics, modpodge, paper collage, sharpies, and krylon. All images from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons.

Secondhand bag upcycled with gesso, paints, sharpies, inks, modpodge, krylon. Image of Helen Hamilton Gardener from the US National Archives uploads (see below).

Secondhand purse from eBay, upcycled with gesso, paint, modpodge, paper collage, stencils, sharpies, and inks. Image of suffrage advocate J. Hungerford Milbank from Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below). SOLD, 2/11.

Secondhand purse from eBay, upcycled with gesso, paint, modpodge, paper collage, stencils, sharpies, and inks. Image of suffrage advocate J. Hungerford Milbank from Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below). SOLD, 2/11.

I made this collage pendant at THATCamp SoCal's "Craft Cabin" today (1/12/11), made with recycled cardboard, ink, paint, paper punches, rubber stamps, and sharpies. Image from Flickr Commons, Library of Congress uploads, features suffragist Margaret Howe.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled by me with paint, paper collage, ink, sharpies, modpodge, stencil, and Krylon. Image of suffrage bugler Rose Sanderman from the Flickr Commons uploads by the Library of Congress (see below). NFS. Added to A Month of Gratitude, 11.2.10: Grateful for the right to vote, and grateful that I didn't face any trouble by carrying this political message into the polls today. In some neighborhoods, this might have been enough to get someone hassled.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled by me with paint, paper collage, ink, sharpies, modpodge, and Krylon. Image of suffrage bugler Rose Sanderman from the Flickr Commons uploads by the Library of Congress (see below). NFS.

Thrifted Lancaster leather backpack, upcycled with freezer-paper stencil, gesso, acrylic paints, sharpies. modpodge, krylon. Emmeline Pankhurst image from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Tested my freezer-paper stencil on a t-shirt (which I use for experiments, maybe you can tell from the varieties of dye in the background--it used to be a white shirt). Emmeline Pankhurst image from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Freezer-paper stencil I played with today. Emmeline Pankhurst image from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, paint, paper collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge, and krylon. Image is from the Library of Congress uploads in Flickr Commons, showing four of the Suffrage Hikers (1913): Elisabeth Freeman, Vera Wentworth, Elsie McKenzie, and Ida Craft. (see below) SOLD 1/10.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, paint, paper collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge, and krylon. Image is from the Library of Congress uploads in Flickr Commons, showing four of the Suffrage Hikers (1913): Elisabeth Freeman, Vera Wentworth, Elsie McKenzie, and Ida Craft. (see below) SOLD 1/10.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, paint, paper collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge, and krylon. Image is from the Library of Congress uploads in Flickr Commons, showing four of the Suffrage Hikers (1913): Elisabeth Freeman, Vera Wentworth, Elsie McKenzie, and Ida Craft. (see below) SOLD 1/10.

Upcycled from a plain black thriftshop backpack with gesso, acrylic paints, paper collage, sharpies, modpodge, and krylon. Image of Hedwig Reicher as Columbia, at the 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington DC, is from the Flickr Commons uploads of the Library of Congress (See below for original.) SOLD 8/09.

Thrifted purse altered with a acrylic paint, collage, nail polish, rubberstamping, and sharpies. SOLD 4/09.

Thrifted purse altered with acrylic paint, collage, nail polish, rubberstamping, and sharpies. SOLD 4/09.

Using an image from the Library of Congress, from the Flickr Commons (see below). Acrylic paint, nail polish, sharpies, and a whole lotta modpodge. SOLD 11/09.

Altered with gesso, acrylic paint, paper collage, sharpie markers, inkpad Original image is Elisabeth Freeman and other suffragettes, from the Flickr Commons uploads of the Library of Congress (see below). SOLD 4/09.