[Political cartoon showing Van Buren racing on a hog; below is Democra...
Photoprint of engraving. Appears to be a detail of broadside sheet reproduced in LC-USZ61-1654. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Pol... More
Wilson, Honorable James Falconer of Iowa, Delegate to Democratic Nat. ...
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"Speak out" N.Y. Herald - Public domain dedication image
President-elect Grover Cleveland holds a telephone receiver to his ear. Behind him on the wall is a portrait of President Chester A. Arthur captioned, "Pres. of U.S. till March 4, 1885." No copyright informati... More
The fake operator and his dupe / Keppler, Jr.
Print shows Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune newspaper, typing headlines that appear on ticker tape that is being read by a stalwart Republican; the headlines include: "The Country on the Brink of ... More
Big three of House Judiciary. Washington D.C. The big guns of the Hous...
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South Carolina Solon. Washington, D.C., June 11. This new informal pic...
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A hard game of "follow your leader" / Keppler.
Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan leading a donkey labeled "Dem" loaded down with a platform, including bunting, labeled "Democratic Platform" and boxes labeled "Anti-expansion," "Anti-trust," and "Free... More
A hint to the Democratic platform makers / Keppler.
Illustration shows several men identified by last name "Hill, Jones, Olney, Clark, Bailey, Shepard, Watterson, [and] Lamont" carrying planks of lumber which are identified as Democratic policies from previous e... More
Democratic Digest. Lady knocking on door at 2522 Q St. I
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Townsend bill plan dishonest sponsor tells house committee. Washington...
A black and white photo of three men sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, In... More
At the bar in the Democratic Club in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
[Downtown Chicago at night], New York City
Photograph shows a view of downtown Chicago at night after lights have been turned on inside the big buildings. NEA Service. Caption on verso: "Glowing with convention excitement, dressed-up Chicago offers its ... More
[Demonstrators against the war in Vietnam holding signs on the boardwa...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-FF, frame 29. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City,... More
[African American and white supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Demo...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-DD, frame 8. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, ... More
McGovern/Shriver, '72 - Public domain portrait print
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Watergate Hotel, site of the scandalous break-in of Democratic Party H...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
This woman's place is in the house -- the House of Representatives! : ...
Poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Bella Abzug. Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...
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Greenbelt Community Building, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt, Prince Geor...
Significance: The Greenbelt Community Building is a focal point of activity for this important, early planned community. It was first used as a combination community meeting hall and school building and later ... More
Jinnoowine [i.e. "genuine"] Johnson ticket. "Carrying the war into Afr...
An illustrated election ticket for the presidential campaign of 1836. Oddly, the ticket lists Ohio's Democratic electors for Van Buren while making a vicious and obscene slur on the wife of his running-mate Ri... More
The gunboat candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill
Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan is lampooned as an incompetent military leader. He sits in a saddle mounted on the boom of the Union ironclad vessel "Galena." The print recalls two p... More
Leaders of the Democratic Party, Confederate States of America.
A searing, election-year indictment of four prominent figures in the Democratic party, three of them former Confederate officers. Former New York governor and Democratic presidential nominee Horatio Seymour is... More
True democracy is safe! / C.J. Taylor.
Print shows a man identified as a "Sound Money Democrat" holding up a campaign banner that states "For President - For Vice President Palmer and Buckner.
Parade -- St. Louis Convention - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...
Photograph shows a band marching in a parade during the 1916 Democratic National Convention held in St. Louis, Missouri from June 14-16. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
Investigating presidential campaign expenses, Washington, D.C., Sept. ...
A group of men sitting around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Harris and Ewing photo. Date (year) based on date of ne... More
One republican greets another. Washington, D.C., March 27. Mrs. Edward...
A black and white photo of a man shaking hands with a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing... More
California Congressman. Washigton, D.C., March 2. A new informal pictu...
A man sitting at a table signing papers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Aerial view of delegates and the stage with large pictures of John F....
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-Q, frame 9A/10. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic Cit... More
[Aerial view of delegates seated on the floor of the 1964 Democratic N...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-J, frame 31. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, ... More
[Andrew Young, a Democratic Congressman from Georgia, three-quarter le...
Contact sheet folder caption: "Cong. Andrew Young (D-Georgia), WKL, 5/6/76." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 32670... More
The old man and the sea - A cartoon drawing of a man in a boat
Cartoon shows Senator George McGovern as a fisherman in a small boat with the remains of a large fish, labeled "War Issue," lashed to its side, battling against high seas. Valtman alludes to Ernest Hemingway's... More
Here we go again - Drawing. Public domain image.
Cartoon shows the Democratic donkey and the GOP elephant as competing organ grinders, each with a monkey begging for "Votes." The organs are actually television sets, one showing the head of the Democratic pre... More
Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The meeting at Saratoga. "Like boxers thus before the fight, their ha...
The second of two prints by "HD" portraying scenes from President Van Buren's visit to the resort at Saratoga Springs, New York, during the summer of 1839. (See also "The Cut Direct," no. 1839-3.) The satire co... More
The two platforms. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Another in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The pos... More
Roosevelt Stadium, State Route 440 & Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, Hud...
Significance: A significant structure in the history of New Jersey and the racial integration of baseball. The stadium is associated the Mayor Frank Hague as a physical manifestation of his power and strong con... More
Symptoms of a duel - Public domain portrait drawing
The second of two particularly well-drawn caricatures by the same artist, on the subject of the 1839 congressional probe of Van Buren's Treasury Department. (See above, nos. 1839-6 through -9.) The inquiry was ... More
Southern "volunteers", Confederate States of America.
The print may have appeared soon after the Confederate Congress passed a national conscription act on April 16, 1862, to strengthen its dwindling army of volunteers. The artist characterizes regular Confederat... More
"This is a white man's government" "We regard the Reconstruction Acts ...
Cartoon showing man with belt buckle "CSA" holding a knife "the lost cause," a stereotyped Irishman holding club "a vote," and another man wearing a button "5 Avenue" and holding wallet "capital for votes," wit... More
The political Sodom and Gomorrah are doomed to destruction / F. Grätz.
Print shows an angel labeled "New Party" with wings labeled "Tariff-Reform" and "Anti-Monopoly" leading two small orphan children labeled "Political Honesty" and "Political Wisdom" to safety, away from the fire... More
Mr. Hill tries it on / Gillam. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Illustration shows the Governor of New York, David B. Hill, riding backwards on the Democratic donkey labeled "Democracy" running on railroad tracks near a sign that states "Look Out for the Enlightening Expres... More
An experienced performer : Ring-master Platt--Now Chauncey, have you e...
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's weekly, 32:440 (June 16, 1888).
The passing of Lent / J.S. Pughe.
Illustration shows a scene outside a church with an old woman labeled "Democratic Party" standing between William Jennings Bryan as a friar labeled "16 to 1" and Arthur P. Gorman as the devil; she is smiling as... More
Mother Goose to date / Grant Hamilton.
Illustration shows Alton B. Parker as "Little Bopeep" sitting on a rock labeled "Esopus", tending a flock of sheep labeled "Gold Democrat" and their tails stating "Vote"; the sheep are entering a pasture labele... More
The populist Paul Revere / J.S. Pughe.
Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan riding on a horse fashioned out of "The Commoner" newspapers, through a town, announcing that representatives of the reorganized Democratic Party were coming, drawing o... More
Awaiting the "third party" - Drawing. Public domain image.
Illustration shows a donkey labeled "Democratic Party" and an elephant labeled "Republican Party" sitting on a porch; a stork carrying a bag labeled "Dr. Stork" is coming around the corner of the building. Cap... More
Such a business! / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows a nurse labeled "Mack" opening a window to the "Democratic Maternity", outside of which are several storks carrying newborns labeled "Gaynor, Bryan, Douglas, Harmon, Clark, Wilson, [and] Unde... More
Controversial Party Banner in Tucson, Ariz[ona], 1916
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street in Tucson with banner raised up across, "Women voters vote against Wilson-Ashurst-Hayden. Their party opposes national woman suffrage. National Woman's... More
Mabel Vernon Speaking at Suffrage Rally, May, 1916
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Mabel Vernon speaking to large crowd (mostly men) outside building in Chicago. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 4, no. 25 (June ... More
Big three of House Judiciary. Washington D.C. The big guns of the Hous...
A black and white photo of three men sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified data on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General ... More
Special laborsaving rollers used in moving brick for road repair, Rout...
General caption for this series of images: These pictures taken immediately preceeding Ohio Democratic primaries. Incumbent governor Martin Davey set thousands of people to work on the roads for the several wee... More
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee named as Congress nears close...
A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Author and administrator of Wagner Labor Act go into a huddle. Washing...
Two men standing next to each other talking, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gen... More
Rhode Island Solon. Washington, D.C., March 31. A new and informal pic...
A man sitting in a chair reading a book, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General... More
[Senator Herman E. Talmadge of Georgia, head-and-shoulders portrait, f...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no.12313, frame 18A/19. Contact sheet folder caption: "Senator Herman E. Talmadge, Dem... More
[Aaron Henry, chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delega...
Photograph shows Henry seated at a table reading from a document.
[Representatives Ronald Dellums and Dan Rostenkowski dancing at the De...
Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1993-82 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1993-82, frame 24. Contact sheet or negative sleeve... More
Campaign for 16th Pennsylvania - U.S. Presidential Elections
Caption for frame no. 35: Democratic candidate James G. Blaine shakes hands with May Egolf at Coatesville Senior Center in Coatesville, Pa., during a campaign stop. Looking on is Christine Terry. Blaine is runn... More
Adrift in spite of rock and tempests roar ... Coffin
Democratic Party Congressmen Benjamin Franklin Butler, William Steele Holman, Samuel Jackson Randall, William Ralls Morrison, and others in sinking boat "Democracy" sailing between the Scylla of "protection" an... More
Bonnie Lowenthal (1)
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New Hackensack Reformed Dutch Church, State Route 376, .4 mile north o...
Significance: The New Hackensack Reform Dutch Church is significant historically and architecturally. Its long history in an important area of Dutch settlement and culture in lower Duchess County identifies as ... More
Public office is a public trust For President of the United States, Gr...
Political poster shows vignettes of the candidates, banners with campaign slogans, and an eagle. On recto: Democratic campaign banner no. 1.
Roosevelt Stadium, State Route 440 & Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, Hud...
Significance: A significant structure in the history of New Jersey and the racial integration of baseball. The stadium is associated the Mayor Frank Hague as a physical manifestation of his power and strong con... More
Grand National Democratic banner. Press onward
One of several campaign banners Nathaniel Currier is known to have produced for the Democrats in 1844. It features two laurel-wreathed, oval portraits of Democratic presidential and vice-presidential candidates... More
All on hobbies, gee up, gee ho!
The major figures in American national politics in 1838 are gently satirized, each characterized as riding a favorite issue or "hobbyhorse." At the lead (far left) is President Martin Van Buren, riding a horse ... More
Smoking him out - Political cartoon, public domain image
A humorous commentary on Barnburner Democrat Martin Van Buren's opposition to regular Democratic party nominee Lewis Cass. Van Buren and his son John were active in the Free Soil effort to prevent the extensio... More
Position of the Democratic Party in 1852. "Freemen of America, how lon...
A crudely drawn satire bitterly attacking Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Pierce and appealing to the "Freemen of America." The print, possibly executed by a free black, criticizes the Democrats' pla... More
Harmony in the wigwam! Democracy of the right brand-y
A comic scene ridiculing the Tammany Democrats of New York City. Tammany headquarters, known as the "Wigwam," here erupts in a drunken fracas over the Democratic platform for the presidential race of 1852. The ... More
The fish question settled - Public domain print
A facetious, and somewhat racist, look at public opinion surrounding the controversy over American fishing rights in British-controlled waters off North America. (See also "John Bull's Fish Monopoly," no. 1852-... More
The "mustang" team - A cartoon of a horse pulling a cart with people o...
The abolitionist Republican presidential ticket and its supporters in the press are the targets of the cartoon. Candidate Fremont, wearing an emigrant's smock and carrying a cross (an allusion to his rumored Ca... More
Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler
The artist lays on the Democrats the major blame for violence perpetrated against antislavery settlers in Kansas in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Here a bearded "freesoiler" has been bound to the "Democr... More
The vote of the gold democrats; -- their country's welfare before thei...
Illustration shows members of the Democratic Party labeled "Sound Money Democrats" casting votes for President McKinley and showing their support for the "Sound Money" platform of the Republican Party; on the l... More
Caricature, Viewed from Elysium / Keppler., public domain cartoon imag...
Illustration shows Thomas Jefferson, laughing, sitting on a bench, holding papers that state "Dem. Doctrine, 1901 'We oppose, with Jefferson, the conspiracy of National Expansion'" and "New York State platform ... More
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. MRS. NORMAN E. MACK AND MRS. WILLIAM H...
An old photo of two women wearing hats. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Daisy Harriman addresses a Democratic rally in Union Square, New York...
Photo shows a banner for the Woman's National Wilson and Marshall Organization. The New York Times states that Mrs. Jaffray Borden (Daisy) Harriman was the founder and chairman. They were active at least throug... More
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. AT LEFT, BENNETT CLARK, SON OF CHAMP C...
A black and white photo of two men in suits and hats. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Public domain photograph of public building, train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Women's Democratic Nat'l club at Wilson's tomb, 3/7/25
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Will lead Democrats in Senate this session. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31....
A black and white photo of three men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New congressman. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Newly elected members of th...
A black and white photo of two men shaking hands. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Illinois Solon. Washington, D.C., Jan. 9. This new informal photograph...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Making out income tax perplexing problem to Nevada senator. Washington...
A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party suppo...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-H, frame 9. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, N... More
[Delegates on the floor at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, At...
Photograph taken by Warren K. Leffler or Thomas J. O'Halloran. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-MM, frame 6. ... More
[Illinois delegates at the Democratic National Convention of 1968, rea...
Contact sheet folder caption: "Democratic Nat'l Conv. 3rd sessions, after recess...Frames 31a-33a - Ill. delegates reaction to Sen. Ribicoff's nominating speech; Mayor Daley of Chicago in Frame 33. WLK, 8-28-6... More
Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, Fla., 3rd session Shirley...
Photograph shows Shirley Chisholm smiling at microphone. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 26274, frame 23. Forms part of: U.S. News ... More
Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, Fla., 3rd session Chishol...
Photograph shows people demonstrating for Shirley Chisholm and George Wallace at convention. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 26272,... More
[Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter kissing, surrounded by family, including Am...
Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Caucus curs in full yell, or a war whoop, to saddle on the people, a p...
A critical commentary on the press's treatment of Andrew Jackson, and on the practice of nominating candidates by caucus during the presidential race of 1824. The cartoon pointedly attacks Republican nominee Wi... More
Joseph Holt Papers: Miscellany, 1797-1917; Printed matter; Business ca...
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Thomas Hart Benton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
Democratic Senator from Missouri, 1821-1851. Scratched on face of plate: 85. Scratched on back of plate: 228; Thos. H. Benton. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p.... More