political campaigns

Going the whole hog - Public domain book illustration

Martin Van Buren's New York political favorites are represented as piglets suckled by a giant sow "The Empire State." The artist's pointed reference is to the exploitation of New York State by the President and... More

The Hon. Jefferson Davis, president-elect of the new southern confeder...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 March 16, p. 257.

The color line is broken / Th. Nast.

Wood engraving shows Negro holding Democratic ticket over ballot box. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 21, (1877 December 8), p. 972. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracin... More

The Chinese question would be settled if the Chinee, Chinee, would vot...

Caricature showing Chinese putting many votes into large bowl - voting "straight Democratic ticket."

Another restorer of antiquities à la Cesnola / Gillam.

Print shows Charles A. Dana as an archaeologist who has just excavated a statue labeled "S.J.T." and "Buried in 1876" from "Greystone", behind which Henry Watterson, on the left, and John Kelly, on the right, g... More

Barkis is willin' / Gillam. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows an Irishman man labeled "Democracy" standing at center, holding a small glass slipper labeled "'84 Presidential Nomination", with Samuel J. Tilden and Charles A. Dana as courtiers standing behind hi... More

Home rule map of Ireland - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

This highly political map was published in Boston for an audience of Irish immigrants eager to learn all there was to know about efforts to pass the Home Rule Bill in Ireland. This Bill was intended to give Ire... More

The frog who tried to be as big as a bull / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration showing William McKinley as a bull standing next to a small pond, looking at a puffed up frog wearing a top hat and a bandolier. Illus. in: Puck, v. 47, no. 1205 (1900 April 11), centerfold. Copyr... More

Women Demonstrating against Child Labor, New York City

Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life

Painful incident of the cold spell. Moral: be careful about starting a...

Bradley's cartoon shows Kansas, as a stove, fighting back as John D. Rockefeller dressed in women's attire, pours Standard oil into it. As he pours, the stove explodes, toppling over a pot of "Profits" and blo... More

The puzzled chicks / J.S. Pughe., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan as hens among confused chicks labeled "Reciprocity, Anti-Money Devil, Over-Capitalization, Gov't Control of Rail Roads, Income Tax, Anti Wall St.... More

Socialists, Union Sq, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Women strike pickets from Ladies Tailors, New York

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gov. Wilson Refused to Mix Up in New York State Politics At Syracuse Y...

This illustration entitled, "Gov. Wilson Refused to Mix Up in New York State Politics At Syracuse Yesterday", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on September 13, 1912... More

Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr of New York is one of the prominent members of ...

Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter length, Rheta Childe Dorr, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding eye glasses in right hand and newspaper in left hand, wearing corduroy su... More

Suffrage Campaigning: Women's Freedom League1907-1914

TWL.2004.604Badge, metal, enamel, round, produced by the produced by Women's Freedom League, white centre, green border, gold inscription: 'Women's Freedom League Votes for Women'. Reverse is engraved 'Toye & C... More

Poster - Woman your country needs you! - Public domain lithograph

Poster showing Liberty presenting a sword "Service" to a young woman; Liberty's shield is inscribed State & National Councils of Defense.

Mrs. Chas. Farnam, Mrs. F.H. Dike, Mrs. F.P. Adams, Geo. Tolly

Photograph shows Ruth Stanley Farnam, Mrs. F.H. Dike (Millicent G. Hayes), Minna Schwarz Adams, and George Tolly recruiting soldiers for World War I in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. PHILADELPHIA GROUP AT HEADQUARTERS

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The first picket line - College day in the picket line

Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. Forms part of: National Woman's Party records, Manuscript Division.

Children pickets at Raleigh Hotel waiters strike

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irish freedom demonstration - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a group of women with picket signs in support of American intervention in the cause of an independent Ireland. J243902 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Harris & Ewing News Ne... More

These villagers of Asia Minor were driven into the mountains near thei...

Mother Jones - Public domain portrait print

President Coolidge and Mother Jones, half-length portraits, standing. National Photo Company Collection. Item in album: v. 2, p. 19, no. 32659.

Votes for Women at 21, 1927. - Public domain historical image

TWL/2009/02/212

Group of women from Australia, Austria, Bessarabia, Chile, Cuba, Engla...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a group of women standing in front of Equal Rights Campaign building. Also on verso: Feminists standing in front of Equal Rights Campaign office in Geneva, Aug. 1930.

Louie Howe - National Parks Gallery

Louis McHenry Howe (1871-1936) was an Albany correspondent for the New York Herald and the New York Telegram when he met the young FDR, then a state senator. From that moment on, he served both unofficially an... More

McCully Building, 175 South Oregon Street, Jacksonville, Jackson Count...

Significance: Dr. James W. McCully was one of the earliest settlers in Jacksonville and played an important role in the early development of the town. Although listed as a dairyman on the 1855 jury list, he wa... More

[Group; Manuel L. Quezon waving at center]

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

V.P. welcomes new Senator. Washington, D.C., Dec. 17. Returning to the...

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Olney, Maryland. Showing a Negro how to vote at the polls on election ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. T. H. Fresdahl, Age 82, Casts Her Vote

Original caption: Baltic, South Dakota, typical of many rural communities all over the United States, goes to the polls during the November, 1948 presidential election. In this little Norwegian farm community, ... More

Marchers for Allende / [Jim Wallace].

Photograph showing a crowd of people marching to support the election of Salvador Allende for president in Santiago, Chile. Frame 15 of contact sheet. Title from caption list. U.S. News & World Report Magazine ... More

Former Vice President Richard Nixon addressing the room at the Sherato...

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

Ön Valen, 24 mars 1966 Örebro läns museum Sweden

Ön Valen, 24 mars 1966 Public domain photograph - Sweden, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Former Massachusetts governor Endicott Peabody during Democratic Senat...

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Richard Nixon campaign rally at Somerset Hotel

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

Governor William G. Milliken - Public domain portrait print

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Black control of the Black community! vote Socialist Workers in 1970.

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm announcing her candidacy for the presid...

Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 25384, frame 6A. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of... More

[Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C. ]

Contact sheet folder caption: Iran students demonstrate. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

Stille wacht voor de overleden IRA-hongerstaker Bobby

Stille wacht voor de overleden IRA-hongerstaker Bobby Sands voor het Britse consulaat in Amsterdam

Picket-line door "Wij Vrouwen Eisen" in Leidsestraat

Picket-line door "Wij Vrouwen Eisen" in Leidsestraat in Amsterdam tegen abortusprocessen in Spanje

Demonstratie brandweer in Amsterdam tegen sluiting

Demonstratie brandweer in Amsterdam tegen sluiting kazerne aan het Haarlemmerplein Public domain photograph - 1984 by The Algemeen Nederlandsch Fotobureau (ANeFo), also known as the General Dutch Photo Bureau,... More

Demonstratie tegen racisme en discriminatie als afsluiting

Demonstratie tegen racisme en discriminatie als afsluiting actieweek tegen racisme in Amsterdam

Actieweek jongeren tegen racisme; nachtwake op de Dam

Actieweek jongeren tegen racisme; nachtwake op de Dam voor Kerwin Duynmeier

Anti-nuclear demonstrators parade in front of the main gate of the bas...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp H. M. Smith State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: CPL P.D. Towne Release Status: Released to Pu... More

Protest bij kort geding beurtschippers

Protest bij kort geding beurtschippers Public domain photograph - 1987 by The Algemeen Nederlandsch Fotobureau (ANeFo), also known as the General Dutch Photo Bureau, a Dutch photography agency, Netherlands. - ... More

[Women outside the U.S. Capitol holding signs supporting the National ...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1995-215 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1995-215, frame 14. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

Ukraine - WMD Dismantlement - April 1995 - Inspection team visit to va...

Ukraine - WMD Dismantlement - April 1995 - Inspection team visit to various ruins of former Soviet Union (FSU) Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) production facilities, ICBM SILOs, ICBM transport trucks, constru... More

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense (center) m...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Salahuddin State: Arbil Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: Tsgt Cherie A. Thurlby, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

A voter from the village of Moraqhja, proudly displays his finger, sho...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: Parwan Province Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Ken Denny, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Servic... More

Iraqi citizens wait in line at a polling site in the city of Husaybah,...

Husaybah, Iraq (Dec. 15, 2005) Iraqi citizens wait in line at a polling site in the city of Husaybah, Iraq to vote during the countrys first parliamentary election. Iraqi citizens elected their first permanent ... More

Iraqi man submits his vote into the voting box, on Dec. 15, 2005, down...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Loyalty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A Scene Camera Operator: PFC... More

The Georgetown elections - the Negro at the ballot-box / Th. Nast. Ne...

Illustration showing at top of page, several men at a polling place where an African American man places his ballot in the box for "Re[publ]ican Mayor Welch" which is next to the empty ballot box for "The White... More

Bring U.S. together. Vote Chisholm 1972, unbought and unbossed

Poster shows portrait of presidential candidate and U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm. Date of publication supplied by Library staff. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress)

Opening of Benwell Billiard Saloon

View of John Grantham, Sheriff of Newcastle at the opening of Benwell Billiard Saloon, 28 November 1924 (TWAM ref. DF.GRA/1/1)...These images belong to a series of albums documenting John Grantham’s service to ... More

Portrait of Harold Holt shaking hands with an unidentified man on the ...

United Australia Party politician Harold Holt shaking hands with his defeated opponent, Australian Labor Party politician Don Cameron, following his victory at the 1935 Fawkner by-election

1987 Indonesian election PDI Campaign

An open campaign by the supporters of the PDI party in the 1987 Indonesian legislative election.

Ahmad Ridha Sabana 2013

Ahmad Ridha Sabana, the leader of the Garuda Party. This photo was taken when he was a legislative candidate for Gerindra in the 2014 legislative election, competing for the Jakarta Regional People's Representa... More

Meeting of the election commission for the Second State Duma elections...

Meeting of members of the election commission for the Second State Duma elections in the Solanoy City Hall. Elections to the Second State Duma. The second elections to the Duma of the Russian Empire took place ... More

An African River and Village, (s.d.) (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS5-1-008...

An African River and Village, [s.d.] "An African river, Laws of Livingstonia" Photograph of an African river, the location is unspecified but it is likely in Malawi. A cluster of round thatched huts can be see... More

Electric Power House, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca. 1894-1904 (imp-cswc-GB...

Electric Power House, Livingstonia, Malawi, ca. 1894-1904 Photograph of the interior of an electric power house built in Livingstonia in Malawi. The interior of a machine room can be seen and there is a machi... More

The Murchison Cataracts or Waterfalls, Malawi, (s.d.) (imp-cswc-GB-237...

The Murchison Cataracts or Waterfalls, Malawi, [s.d.] "The Murchison Cataracts, Laws of Livingstonia" Photograph of the Murchison waterfalls in Malawi. The falls, which were named after the geologist Sir Rode... More

The Arkhangelsk electoral assembly. Elections to the First State Duma....

The Arkhangelsk electoral assembly. Elections to the First State Duma. 1906 Архангельское избирательное собрание. Выборы в Первую Государственную Думу. 1906

"A WELL FED NATION IS A FIGHTING NATION" - NARA - 535602

Scope and content: Nutrition awareness - with caption. Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A photo of the card issued to Nixon by the registrar of voters for the...

Scope and content: Subject: Campaign 1972. Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1886 (MOHAI 11602)

Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Hen... More

Нет места - Drawing. Public domain image.

Русский: Нет места : [плакат] / худож. М. Боровков ; ИЗО Пролеткульта. — [Москва] : [б. и.], [1925] (Москва : «Мосполиграф» ; Школа ФЗУ). — Цветная литография, 1 лист, 108 × 72 см. — 10 000 экз.

(Association meeting at York) (BM 1868,0808.4671)

A representation, partly allegorical,of the meeting of the Association at York on 30 Dec. 1779 when the petition of the county was agreed to and a committee of sixty-one appointed. Men sit and stand in ranks on... More

Fashionable Follies. Les Follies á la Mode. (BM 1868,0808.10322 1)

A series of isolated figures and groups arranged in two strips, a line separating the upper from the lower. Probably an imitation of BMSat 7301. [1] 'Walking Le Marcheur'. A man walks in profile to the right, h... More

Flood of corruption - Hen Flood MP (BM 1868,0808.5326)

A bust-portrait of Henry Flood in profile to the right. Behind his shoulders waves are indicated. Flood was not returned for Winchester at the general election, see BMSat 6605, 6607. c. May 1784 Etching

Hodge-podge or the Bridge mirrour. (BM 1868,0808.13213)

Satire on the contest for the election of the Town Clerk of the City of London, May 1757; James Hodges, a bookseller on London Bridge, is shown in Guildhall making a notoriously tedious speech; he is hung abou... More

Mason, the duke's confectioner, disposing of the trinkets. (BM J,4.43)

A scene representing the hustings at the Westminster election. Fox (right) stealthily enters a door leading to the side of the hustings, carrying on his shoulder a sack from holes in which guineas and a Garter... More

Members of the Whig Club (BM 1868,0808.6741)

Norfolk (left) and Fox (right) sit close together, hands on knees, the left knee of Norfolk and the right knee of Fox touching; their heads are turned in profile, each gazing fixedly at the other with a melanch... More

Procession to the hustings after a successful canvass, No- 14. (BM 186...

(For description see other impression). 30 April 1784 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The chairing of Fox (BM 1868,0808.5238)

Fox is being chaired (left to right) in a high-backed chair wreathed with laurel, according to the custom in Westminster at the close of an election, cf. BMSat 6590. The three supporters of the chair (three qua... More

The Devonshire method to restore a lost member. (BM 1868,0808.5247)

The interior of the shop of an apothecary or quack medicine vendor. Three persons have entered (left): the Duchess of Devonshire stands full-face offering the apothecary (right) a purse, while she holds out her... More

The Elected Cobler. (BM 1915,0313.170)

Satire on an unidentified preacher: (No.10) a man with long unkempt hair wearing a long coat and clerical band standing on a three-legged stool ranting, with one foot raised and one arm above his head. 27 Augu... More

The Election Race between Jack True Whig and Sam Block (BM 1868,0808.5...

Lord John Townshend (left), seated on a fox (C. J. Fox), distances Lord Hood, seated on a goose, in a race 'To St Stephens' (the words on a signpost on the extreme left). On the right the portico of St. Paul's,... More

The Fox and Geese triumphant (BM 1868,0808.5315)

A satire on the chairing of Fox on the declaration of the poll for Westminster. Fox, with a fox's body, sits astride a goose with the head of the Prince of Wales; he grins with satisfaction; on his erect brush ... More

The Junto in the dumps- or the Day after the Election (BM 1990,1109.75...

Political satire: four men seated round a table looking at the results of the election, while two more weep behind and others stand in the doorway; at the right a devil exclaims 'All plumpers for me'. 12 Septe... More

The Man of Moderation (BM 1868,0808.5149)

The façade of the King's Arms tavern in Palace Yard, from the central first-floor bow-window of which Fox, a fox with a human head, addresses the electors of Westminster, who are geese with human heads (cf. BMS... More

The Precipice 1766 (BM 1868,0808.4387)

Satire on the precarious position of William Pitt's new administration in August 1766. Pitt is shown balanced on the jagged points of a rock; above his head the words "I have 'em both" appears to refer to the a... More

The Prevailing Candidate, or the Election carried by Bribery and the D...

Satire on the general election of 1722 showing a grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between; to the left of this is a screen with seven folds. On the right three men, one holding a staff of off... More

"WE ARE FROM MISSOURI" "IN 1914 WE WILL SHOW YOU" sign detail, Missour...

Yellow/gold colored sateen Missouri Equal Suffrage Association banner. Removed from wooden rod.Title: Missouri Equal Suffrage Banner

1912 Woodrow Wilson Campaign Pin

1912 Woodrow Wilson Campaign Pin. Features an image of Wilson as well as the slogan "For President Woodrow Wilson."Title: 1912 Woodrow Wilson Campaign Pin

Miniature Portrait of Andrew Jackson given to Elizabeth Linn by Silas ...

Miniature watercolor portrait on ivory of Andrew Jackson, given to Mrs. Elizabeth Linn of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri by Senator Silas Wright, Jr.Title: Miniature Portrait of Andrew Jackson given to Elizabeth Linn... More

Le dépouillement des votes

Counting the ballots in the 1938 by-election in the federal riding of St. Henri in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Camillien Houde, running for the Conservatives, lost to Joseph Arsène Bonnier for the Liberals.

1964 DNC 05249u - A black and white photo of a crowd of people

Title: [Delegates and stage at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; sign over stage reads "Let us continue..."] Date Created/Published: [1964 August 26] Medium: 1 negative : film ... More

StateLibQld 1 76283 Women at the first state election comparing notes,...

Women at the first state election comparing notes, Brisbane, 1907 : [suffragette movement in Queensland] Celebrating the centenary of the suffrage movement in Queensland. On 5 January 1905, two years after the ... More

The political gymnasium - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

[Protest against child labor in a labor parade]

Photograph shows half-length portrait of two girls wearing banners with slogan "ABOLISH CH[ILD] SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish, one carrying American flag; spectators stand nearby. Probably taken during May ... More

Where both platforms agree--no vote--no use to either party / J.A. Wal...

Illustration shows James Garfield and Winfield S. Hancock nailing a Chinese man between two "Anti-Chinese" boards labeled "Republican Plank" and "Democratic Plank". Illus. in: Puck, v. 7, no. 175 (1880 July 14... More

A war president. Progressive democracy

A caricature of Democratic candidate Lewis Cass, a general in the War of 1812, suggesting that his expansionist leanings would lead the United States into war. Cass (dubbed "General Gas" by the unfriendly press... More

A war president. Progressive democracy

A caricature of Democratic candidate Lewis Cass, a general in the War of 1812, suggesting that his expansionist leanings would lead the United States into war. Cass (dubbed "General Gas" by the unfriendly press... More

A truce - not a compromise, but a chance for high-toned gentlemen to r...

One hand on top of another hand which is on a gun on top of paper "Tilden or blood". Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1877 Feb. 17, p. 132.

Animal magnetism - A cartoon of a man sitting in a chair talking to an...

A swipe at President Van Buren's independent treasury system and his continuation of the monetary policies of predecessor Andrew Jackson. The artist, clearly in sympathy with the Whigs, links corruption in the ... More

Ultimatum on the Oregon question, Political Cartoon

In his typically jingoist view of Polk's handling of the Oregon question, the artist Edward Williams Clay belittles the self-interested attitudes of Europe toward the dispute. The issue of whether to settle the... More

The late auction at St. Eustatia - by R-- & V--

Print shows the interior of an auction house where Admiral Rodney and General John Vaughan are disposing property seized from citizens on the island of Saint Eustatius which the British captured from the Dutch.