elections

The buffalo hunt - Drawing. Public domain image.

An optimistic view of the presidential prospects of Martin Van Buren, nominated at the Free Soil Party's August 1848 convention in Buffalo, New York. Here Van Buren rides a buffalo and thumbs his nose as he se... More

Pope Pius IX. Born May 13th1792. Elected Pope June 16th1846

Print shows Pope Pius IX, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, with right hand raised to make the sign of the cross. 382 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Ins... More

National Union ticket. For President Abraham Lincoln. For Vice Preside...

"War poster issued by Board of Publication, 1864" Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Those dogs won't fight - they are dying of starvation / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows Charles A. Dana, editor of the "Sun", and Stephen B. Elkins, wearing a plumed hat, attempting to push an emaciated dog labeled "Clerical Slanderer" up steps leading to where Grover Cleveland ... More

Maple Leaf Store (J. H. Cavanah, Proprietor) And The Lethbridge Hotel

1885.Copy 1 & copy 3 18 cm x 12.7 cm.Copy 2 9.6 cm x 7.4 cm.2 Black and white copy prints..Photograph of J. H. Cavanah's Maple Leaf Store and the Lethbridge Hotel located on 5th Street South between 2nd and 3rd... More

A squelcher for woman suffrage / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a woman being denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled "Ballots Must Be Prepared In These Booths" where the ballots are... More

Gone crazy / J.S. Pughe. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows an old man labeled "Silverite" riding on the Democratic Donkey labeled "Dem. Party", racing toward an "Abyss of Political Mania" with a policeman chasing him on horseback labeled "Sound Money Democr... More

Puck magazine cover - Pennsylvania's disgrace / Dalrymple.

Print shows Matthew Quay, senator from Pennsylvania and political boss of dubious character, standing at a podium labeled "Keystone Auction Rooms Matt. Quay Auctioneer" auctioning off Pennsylvania's 32 electora... More

New York Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

This illustration entitled "New York Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on September 25, 1898, depicts the harmonious scene of New York Re... More

Women voting at Pitt. - Public domain portrait photograph

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Whither? - Drawing. Public domain image.

This illustration entitled, "Whither?", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on September 9, 1900, is a direct depiction of an article released in the Washington Post on 9/07/1... More

The Congressional Santa Claus - Drawing. Public domain image.

This illustration entitled, "The Congressional Santa Claus", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on December 25, 1904, depicts newly-elected President Theodore Roosevelt playi... More

Rose Winslow of New York; daughter of Polish miner and steel worker in...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Rose Winslow (born Ruza Wenclawska, Poland], wearing dark jumper and white blouse, with dark tam. Cropped version of the photograph published in The... More

R.B. Creager, Mrs. Harding, Mr. Harding, F.E. Scobey

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

DEMOCRATIC VICTORY DINNER. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 4. WITH PRESIDENT AN...

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Forward to Forty!' cry of republicans at dinner tonight. Washington, D...

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Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951)

Description: Plant physiologist Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951) earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University (1901) and taught at Wellesley College from 1893 to 1932. In 1929, she was elected president of the Bot... More

Elections Poster, Cold War American Propaganda poster

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Distribution Center: Multiple Post: RPC - Manila Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East

Be counted on election day : register so you can vote

Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, Fla., 3rd session Shirley...

Photograph shows Shirley Chisholm speaking at microphone. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 26274, frame 20. Forms part of: U.S. News... More

A group of Afghan locals listen to the loud speaker that was place out...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Baghran Valley State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Lesli Angulo, US... More

Birth home of former U.S. General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The house and grounds where "Ike" was born on Oct. 14, 1890 are a Texas State Historic Site. Eisenhower's military success as Supreme ... More

President elect, Abraham Lincoln Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, Presiden...

Print shows Abraham Lincoln (without beard), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, after a photograph by Preston Butler, in large oval with vignettes of scenes from Lincoln's life. Caption from bound copy... More

A brief history of the New Jersey congressional election, of 1838, re-...

Also available in digital form.

An Afghan man expresses his concern about security

An Afghan man expresses his concern about security to an Afghan National Police officer before a shura near Forward Operating Base Bullard, Shah Joy District, Zabul province, Sept. 2. Shah Joy District Chief Ab... More

President-elect Donald J. Trump and U.S. Speaker of

President-elect Donald J. Trump and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi smile for a photo during the 58th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2017. More than 5,000 military members from a... More

Lord Mayor's Holiday Camp at Amble, England

John Grantham, Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne and Violet Grantham, Lady Mayoress, visiting the Lord Mayor's Holiday Camp at Amble, Northumberland, 9 August 1937 (TWAM ref. DF.GRA/5/3)...These images belong ... More

British Local Government - 1943 British Council Film Collection - Cha...

'Local Government' follows 'John Blunt', a farmer, as he seeks to become a councillor in his local borough, and the work of the local council once he is elected. Trivia: Whilst the opening shots are set in the... More

SLNSW 85582 Election - A man wearing a hat and glasses smoking a pipe

Election Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wiranatakusumah departs for Bandung, Satu Tahun Berdirinja Negara Pasu...

Wiranatakusumah departs for Bandung after being foretold about his election as the Wali Negara.

PH3-06132016 tesda JV2 - A group of people sitting next to each other

President Benigno S. Aquino III graces the Ulat ng Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) kay Juan at Juana at the Brick Plaza of the TESDA Complex in Taguig City on Tuesday (June 14, 2016... More

Flickr - USCapitol - Women's Suffrage Parade, 1917 cropped

This mural by Allyn Cox at the U.S. Capital building depicts a 1917 suffrage parade in New York. The parade is led Anna Howard Shaw (in black cap and gown) and Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Ame... More

An African Christian Family, Malawi, ca. 1875-ca. 1920 (imp-cswc-GB-23...

An African Christian Family, Malawi, ca. 1875-ca. 1920 Photograph of an African Christian family. The father stands at the back pf the group dressed in a suit and tie and the rest of the family and grouped in ... More

David Gordon memorial Hospital, Malawi, ca. 1915 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC...

David Gordon memorial Hospital, Malawi, ca. 1915 Photograph of the exterior of the David Gordon Memorial Hospital, Livingstonia, Malawi. Livingstonia was founded in 1894 by missionaries from the Free Church o... More

Franklin D. Roosevelt and others in Seattle, Washington - NARA - 19683...

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San Bruno, California. Entering Recreational Hall where election is be...

Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: San Bruno, California. Entering Recreational Hall where election is being held for Councilman. A general election for five members of the Tanforan... More

Paul Doumer, candidats à la présidentielle 1906 (Grand illustré, 1906-...

Français : Paul Doumer, candidats à l'élection présidentielle française de 1906. Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl ... More

A knight of the back stairs with his three best friends (BM J,4.76)

Wray stands holding in front of him a large guinea, representing his coat of arms; the supporters are, dexter, the Devil (left) and, sinister, a figure dressed as Folly who represents Jackson, steward to the Du... More

A North-ern Ass (BM 1865,1014.457)

Satire on the election for County Durham, 14 April 1784: Sir Thomas Clavering and Sir John Upton, one headless, holding a caption labelled 'The Irish Faction for ever' and carrying the other, who has no feet, o... More

Advice to the Electors of Westminster, or the Case as it is (BM 1868,0...

Fox is depicted twice: on the left. 'A little before and during Election' and (right) 'After Election'. On the left he kneels, hat in hand, to kiss the bare posteriors of a butcher who looks round grinning, and... More

Jaco-Independo-Rebello-Plaido (BM 1868,0808.3844)

Satire on the 1747 Westminster election: a scene outside Westminster Hall with, on the left, supporters of the successful candidates (Viscount Trentham and Admiral Sir Peter Warren) including a group of sailors... More

Parliment security or a borrough in reserve. (BM 1868,0808.5277)

The Duchess of Devonshire (right), wearing very wide hooped petticoats, shelters a fox beneath them. Its head projects from a slit which she holds open with her hands, its tail shows between her feet. She say... More

Print, satirical print (BM J,1.27)

Satire on political corruption, particularly during elections: a dying voter with a paper labelled £50 in his pocket, is pushed by the devil and pulled by a candidate, towards precipice, labelled, "The Brink of... More

The Pitt Fall (BM 1868,0808.5899)

Pitt and his followers are in wild pursuit of the crown which soars on widespread wings in the upper right corner of the design. Pitt, reaching up to it, is about to fall over a cliff into the pit of hell, from... More

The Political Senses with a Map of the Road to Liberty which Lays in 4...

A diagrammatic map with sites named to satirise the Scots, the influence of Lord Bute, disputes between Sir James Lowther and the Duke of Portland, and praising the John Wilkes and his supporters. Down the lef... More

By-election candidate at a sheep market, 1939 (1294177)

Abstract: By-election candidate at a sheep market, 1939 Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Circular of the Democratic Central Committee titled "Victory Gives Fre...

Includes letter of the Democratic Central Committee, Liberty, Mo., to "Fellow Democrat," encouraging democrats to vote in the upcoming election. The committee consists of Henry L. Routt, Thomas McCarty, Wm. H. ... More

Harding Portrait Advertising Leaflet (4359321139)

Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University ... More

StateLibQld 1 119552 Childers Court House on polling day, 5 February 1...

Childers Court House on polling day, 5 February 1908. First Court House erected before 1887. (Description supplied with photograph.).

Portrait of Johannes Christian Brunnich with a bicycle (3230471951)

Location: Queensland, Australia Description: Son of a Lutheran pastor, Johannes was born at Gorizia, then a part of Austria on 11 September 1861. He was educated in Switzerland and obtained his knowledge of ch... More

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (detail of painting)

A 1900 portrait of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-found... More

Sir William Herschel, 1738-1822 RMG L6993

Sir William Herschel, 1738-1822 A half-length portrait of William Herschel to left in a russet coat with a fur collar and either a grey wig or powdered hair. He is holding a paper bearing the words, 'The Georg... More

[Election day at state house] - Drawing. Public domain image.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Lawson.

The political gymnasium. American Civil War 1861-1865.

A general parody on the field of presidential candidates and their supporters in the 1860 campaign. At the far left stands Constitutional Union party vice presidential candidate Edward Everett, as a muscle man ... More

Democratic platform illustrated, Political Cartoon

Another attack on the 1856 Democratic platform as pro-South and proslavery. The Buchanan-Breckenridge ticket is reviled on the basis of recent developments occurring during the outgoing Pierce administration. I... More

Diary in photos, vol. I, 1934-1935

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More

North Bend game cock - Political cartoon, public domain image

A Whig campaign print glorifying presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The title derives from the candidate's farm on the North Bend of the Ohio River. The game cock has a dual significance: as an all... More

American ticket, Brookline manuscript collection

The election--At the polls / W.J.H.

Cartoon of scene at election polls, with 2 people fighting. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 1, 1857 Nov. 7, p. 712.

Not this Thanksgiving / J.S. Pughe., Political Cartoon

Print shows Uncle Sam standing on the sidewalk with a large turkey labeled "Business Revival" in a basket labeled "From Cleveland & Co."; on the right are three vendors offering scrawny turkeys for sale, from l... More

Caricature, Trying it on / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image

Print shows an unhappy William McKinley, wearing a military hat with cockade labeled "Protection", at a tailor's shop known as "Hanna, Platt & Co. Political Clothiers", where he is being fitted for a coat with ... More

And the two J's come up smiling

This illustration entitled "And the Two J's Come Up Smiling", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on July 24, 1897, depicts newly-elected Representatives Jeremiah Simpson of K... More

"I rather like that imported affair" / Grant Hamilton.

Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt wearing his Rough Rider uniform and looking at the style of hats worn by past presidents U.S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington, but the hat he likes ... More

Back to the woods / Kep. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan walking along railroad tracks, following a sign "To Salt River" (on the 1896 free silver dime), he is dragging a carpet bag which contains a gold cross, crown of thorns... More

Election Day! - Public domain portrait drawing

J72583 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.W. Gustin. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, of Portland, Me., has been as...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Margaretta Van Rensellaer Schuyler, wearing straw hat, checked jacket, and white collared shirt. Schuyler was secretary to Alva Belmont (1853-1933).

Jeannette Rankin - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880-1973), a member of the House of Representatives who was elected in 1916 as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Calvin Coolidge - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Health Commissioner of N.Y., and Senator-elect,...

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Republicans start ball rolling for 1938. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. Loo...

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Newsmen await result of election of senate majority leader. Washington...

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Luncheon for Liberian Presidential party. His Excellency, Edwin Barcla...

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

[Presidential Elections] - American Embassy, Paris, France, Marshall P...

[Presidential Elections] - [PAR-5521 through PAR-5532] Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey shaking hands with Dr. King, as ...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Mayor-Elect Kevin White shaking hands with Walter Scott Medal of Honor...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, Brearley collection of historic photographs, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Senator Edward Brooke standing behind a chair which is decorated with ...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 16782, frame 25. Contact sheet fol... More

Richard Nixon during campaign rally at Somerset Hotel

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Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm announcing her candidacy for presidenti...

Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 25383, frame 31. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of... More

Ratify the E.R.A. in '76. Vote Socialist Workers : Peter Camejo for Pr...

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Local resident casts his voter during the recent elections in Mostar. ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Mostar Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Marvence D. Braswell, USAF Re... More

Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, President-elect Barack Oba...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 18, 2009) Jill Biden, left, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, President-elect Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama wave to the crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washingto... More

Many state and local government officials are also

Many state and local government officials are also elected on Election Day as a matter of convenience.

Agnew - Drawing. Public domain image.

Caricature of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, standing before a microphone, holding an axe behind his back. Agnew was well known for his controversial speeches attacking liberals and anti-war demonstrators. He... More

Dividing the national map - Engraving, Public domain image

A crude nonpartisan satire, parodying all four candidates in the 1860 presidential election. A map of the United States hung on a wall is being torn apart by three of the candidates. Lincoln (far left) and Do... More

'I can't believe my eyes' - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon shows Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin, resting on a cloud labeled "Communist Paradise," looking down in dismay at Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev leading a funeral procession bearing a c... More

The people's march - early American sheet music

Caption title. For piano or piano and voice. Includes The People's March and Election the People's Right. LC copy contains inscription on back of page 2 "No. 271 The People's March deposited by J.J. Hawkins as ... More

U.S. Presidential Elections. 1924-1936.

Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS has evolved over the ensuing 125 years, matching its talent and knowledge to the progress of science and technology. The USGS is the sole science agency for the D... More

Your Help Needed during World War I

"Dev. Anti-Conscription Rally, 1918"?..One of our researchers is considering using this photo in an upcoming exhibition, and has asked if the group here could let her know everything that there is to know about... More

Boleta electoral para las elecciones argentinas de 1951 - Perón - Quij...

Español: Boleta electoral para las elecciones presidenciales de 1951 en Argentina, representando la fórmula Perón-Quijano.

UCR1973 - A newspaper advertisement with two men waving

Afiche electoral de la fórmula Balbín-De la Rúa, en las elecciones presidenciales de 1973 en Argentina

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech after administering ...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech after administering the oath to the newly elected local government officials and party-list representatives during a ceremony at the Malacañan Palace on June 25, 2019.

Rev. John Pringle, D.D - An old photo of a man with a mustache

Item is a photograph of Rev. John Pringle, a pastor at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada from 1909-1926. He was pastor emeritus from 1929-1935. Born in 1852 in Prince Edward Island, ... More

206. Little Russia Cossacks in the beginning of the XVIII century, KAZ...

206. Malo Russia Cossacks in the beginning of the XVIII century, KAZAK registered or elected. "Historical description of clothing and arms of the Russian troops from ancient times", compiled on the highest com... More

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Groton, Massachusetts - NARA - 197125

Picryl description: Public domain image of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia. A descendant of one of the ...

Scope and content: Full caption reads as follows: Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia. A descendant of one of the oldest families. Too old to work his farm, he is fortunate in having a son who has electe... More

San Bruno, California. One of eighteen mess halls plastered with all m...

Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: San Bruno, California. One of eighteen mess halls plastered with all manner of locally devised posters advertising the qualifications of the vario... More

"Green Tower" Ipatiev Monastery. Kostroma.

By the decree of the first Russian tsar from the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, the "New city" was built along the western wall of the Ipatiev monastery, the so-called "Old Town". The new territor... More

A deputation from Jonathan's and the Free-Masons (BM 1868,0808.4458)

D'Eon, dressed half as a woman, half as a man, reclines on a couch (r.); he turns to speak to the wine-merchant (see BMSat 4873) who leans on the head of the couch. A small satyr or demon holds a cord which app... More

A Figure that appear'd in a Mazarine Gown at the King of Denmarks Masq...

Satire on Thomas Harley, Lord Mayor of London, 1767-68. A very fat man shown in profile to right, wearing a aldermanic gown with cow's horns protruding forwads from under his wig. A label hanging from one horn ... More

Charon's boat-or-topham's trip, with hood to hell. (BM 1868,0808.5784)

Lord Hood (right) is seated in the stern of a boat facing Topham (left) who stands in the bows propelling the boat with a pole. Behind Hood is a grinning demon with wide-spread webbed wings who steers, manipula... More