[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
The Democratic funeral of 1848 - Political cartoon, public domain imag...
Foreseeing political death for the Democrats in the election, the artist imagines a funeral of the party's standard-bearers with a procession of the faithful. Democratic senators (left to right) Sam Houston of ... More
Joseph E. Baker - How free ballot is protected!
The artist charges the Republicans with electoral corruption and extremism in their efforts to defeat Democratic presidential nominee George B. McClellan. Oblique reference is also made to Lincoln's supposed a... More
Scales, Honorable Alfred Moore, Rep of N.C. Presidential elector on De...
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Seymour and Blair - Public domain portrait print
Photograph of drawing shows Horotio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, 1868 Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates, half-length portrait, Seymour facing front, Blair facing left.
Delilah Randall betrays the democratic Samson / Gillam.
Illustration shows Samuel J. "Delilah" Randall sitting in a chair labeled "Protection", holding scissors labeled "41 Democrats" in one hand and hair labeled "Tariff Reform Bill" in the other, his feet are resti... More
"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
Democratic platform and presidential nominees, Grover Cleveland, A.E. ...
33064 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Beckerman, E. M., cop... More
Big three of House Judiciary. Washington D.C. The big guns of the Hous...
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Senate 'Beau Brummel' meets gentlemen of the press. Washington, D.C., ...
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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
Urey Woodson, KY; N.E. Mack, Buffalo; Robt. Crain, Baltimore; Roger Su...
Photo shows Urey Woodson, Roger Charles Sullivan, Norman Edward Mack, Edwin O. Wood, and Robert Crain at the Democratic Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, June 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009).
Mrs. T.S. Taliaferro - Public domain photograph, glass negative
Photograph shows Lucy Ramsay Taliaferro, wife of Thomas Seddon Taliaferro Jr., 1871 - 1953 who served as vice president for Wyoming for the Women's National Democratic League. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
Republican & Democratic ball teams of House, 31026
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More
Wants dependant children cared for thru Social Security. Washington, D...
A black and white photo of two men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Running for Governor of Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C., March 23. Lt. ...
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TVA congressional investigators hold first meeting. Washington, D.C., ...
A group of men in suits sitting around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. ... More
Rumored peace conference of Pennsylvania democratic factions fails to ...
A black and white photo of three men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pennsylvania Solon. Washington, D.C., April 12. A new informal picture...
A black and white photo of a man giving a speech. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
McNutt calls at White House. Washington, D.C., July 6. Paul McNutt, Go...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 19... More
Sen. Peter Goeley Gerry, Democrat of R.I., May 1940
A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
McGovern/Shriver, '72 - Public domain portrait print
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Democratic Convention in N.Y.C. Gov. of Massachusetts. Michael Dukakes...
Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Dukakis speaking into a microphone. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for ... More
William R. King: democratic candidate for Vice President of the United...
After a daguerreotype by Mathew B. Brady. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7238
A serviceable garment--or reverie of a bachelor
Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan is depicted as a poor bachelor in his squalid quarters. Though indeed a confirmed bachelor, Buchanan in reality was hardly needy. After serving as American minis... 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...
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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The great footrace for the presidential purse (100,000 and picking) ov...
Satire on the presidential election of 1852, showing Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster, and Franklin Pierce competing in a footrace before a crowd of onlookers for a $100,000 prize (the four-year salary for a pres... More
The political farce of 1876. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Print showing bust portraits of eight men, identified as, clockwise from top, Oliver P. Morton, James A. Garfield, George F. Hoar, William Strong, Joseph P. Bradley, Samuel F. Miller, George F. Edmunds, and Fre... More
National democratic republican nomination, US Democratic party
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[Aaron Vanderpoel, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, w...
Democratic Congressman from New York, 1833-1837, 1839-1841. Scratched on back of plate: 160; Judge Vanderpool. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Lib... More
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
The buck chase of 1856 - Political cartoon, public domain image
Democratic candidate James Buchanan, as a buck deer, crosses the finish line of a racecourse ahead of competitors Millard Fillmore and John C. Fremont. Spectators cheer in the stands behind. Fillmore appears a... More
George Hunt - Democracy. 1832. 1864., Confederate States of America.
Two scenes contrast Democratic presidential candidate of 1832 Andrew Jackson and 1864 George B. McClellan. McClellan is portrayed as weak and conciliatory toward the South, whereas his earlier counterpart's st... More
The political mill - putting them into the hopper / A.B.F.
Political cartoon shows Republican National Chairman Edwin D. Morgan putting favored candidate James G. Blaine, the winning candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, and Oliver P. Morton, Roscoe Conkling, Benjamin H. Bris... More
A new bull in the ring / F. Graetz.
Print shows Chester A. Arthur riding the Republican elephant tossed high in the air in a "Political Arena", the elephant is patched with scandals labeled "Credit Mobilier, Collusion with Monopolies, Back Pay Gr... More
May the country be spared this pitiful sight! / Dalrymple.
Print shows a group of Democrats, identified as "Hill, Murphy, Vest, Bland, Matthews, Morgan, Harris, Crisp, Tillman, Altgeld, Campbell, [and] Stevenson", some wear fezes, others are wearing turbans and other a... 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
Members of the NLRB Committee who listened to opening session today. W...
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"I guess we'll keep this one" / Kep.
Illustration shows Uncle Sam picking a puppy labeled "Wilson" from a litter of puppies labeled "Foss, Baldwin, Harmon, [and] Dix"; the mother of the puppies is labeled "Democratic Party". Illus. in: Puck, v. 6... More
(L to R) Walsh, Bryan, Foss, O'Gorman, Pomerene
Photo shows William Jennings Bryan, Massachusetts Governor Eugene Foss, New York Senator James Aloysius O'Gorman, and Ohio Senator Atlee Pomerene outside the Baltimore Armory at the 1912 Democratic National Con... More
Tracks - Drawing. Public domain image.
Leaving behind his sinking boat, Tammany boss Charles Murphy comes ashore at "Manhattan Island," dressed in hunting garb and carrying a rifle. He stares, distraught, at the sight of a trail of large footprints... 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
Investigating presidential campaign expenses, Washington, D.C., Sept. ...
A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New Minister to Norway is luncheon guest of Democratic Committeewomen....
A black and white photo of a group of women sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY DINNER. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 4. WITH PRESIDENT AN...
A group of men in tuxedos standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee named as Congress nears close...
A group of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.l... More
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Men having a game of cards at the Lithuanian...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Bill Sesler for Senator A voice for Pennsylvania, not an echo from Was...
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
Honorable James Buchanan, democratic candidate for the presidency, 185...
James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Polk in his extremity - Political cartoon, public domain image
Henry Clay's easy ascent to the presidency here is in contrast to the serious difficulties experienced by his Democratic opponent James K. Polk. Clay has reached the top of a large pole and has the "Civic Crow... More
The great American tanner / Thomas Worth. sketch ; on stone by [John] ...
An election-year cartoon invoking both Grant's humble beginnings as a tanner and his successful Civil War military career. Before the war Grant had worked in his family's leather goods establishment in Galena, ... More
Union / painted By T[ompkins] H. Matteson ; engraved by H[enry] S. Sad...
A symbolic group portrait eulogizing recent legislative efforts, notably the Compromise of 1850, to preserve the Union. The work is in some respects a memorial to the triumvirate of senior American legislators:... More
The Chicago platform and candidate, Confederate States of America.
McClellan was branded a hypocrite by many critics who saw his public stance on the war issue as ambiguous and deceptive. Nominated because of his military record, he nevertheless ran on a peace platform, writte... More
Social qualities of our candidate, Political Cartoon
Reports of his alcoholism haunted Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce during the 1852 campaign. The matter is taken up here with mocking reference to the Maine Liquor Law of 1851, a landmark prohibition measur... More
James Buchanan: Democratic candidate for fifteenth President of the Un...
Print shows James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Inscribed in ink at bottom: 444 Deposited in Clerk's Office So. Dist. N.Y. Aug 2, 1856. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / c... More
"Uncle Sam" making new arrangements, Political Cartoon
Probably issued late in the campaign, the print seems to express the growing confidence among Republicans in the election of their candidate Abraham Lincoln. It may also be that like "The National Game" (no. 18... More
A contested seat, US Democratic party
The artist anticipates a Whig victory in the 1852 presidential contest. The scene takes place in an interior, carpeted or tiled with a grid-and-star pattern. At left, Whig candidate Winfield Scott, in military ... More
Honorable John C. Breckinridge: of Kentucky, national democratic candi...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3155
Grand National Democratic banner, US Democratic party
Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic candidates Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, almost identical to Currier & Ives's "Grand National Republican Banner" (no. 1876-1.) The Tilden-Hendricks banne... More
The rebound of the ball - Public domain book illustration
A satire on the Democrats' defeat in the fall New York state elections, here viewed as a referendum on Van Buren's independent treasury, or "Sub-treasury" system. A large ball labeled "Sub Treasury" is pushed d... More
The death of locofocoism - Political cartoon, public domain image
In his satire Johnston celebrates the defeat of "Loco Foco," i.e., radical Democratic interests, in the presidential election of 1840. The "Loco Focos" were the largely working-class constituency who supported... 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
Matty meeting the Texas question, Political Cartoon
A satire on the Democrats' approach to the delicate question of the annexation of Texas. In marked contrast to his portrayal of the issue as a beautiful woman in "Virtuous Harry" (no. 1844-27), the artist here ... More
The end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" b...
After a large painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach showing the "destruction of Jerusalem", this print shows the demise of the Republican Party with various Republicans, Mugwumps, Democrats, and allegorical figures,... More
Making the most of it / Gillam.
Illustration shows a man labeled "Hill" holding a large magnifying glass labeled "Democratic Presss Magnifier" between a donkey with blinders labeled "N.Y. Democracy" and a tiny shock of hay labeled "Cleveland'... More
[He won't let go. A cleverer crow than the bird of Aesop's fable]
A fox labeled "Eastern Democrat" looks up at a crow, William Jennings Bryan, perched on a branch of a tree identified as "Denver Convention" holding a piece of cheese in his beak, marked "Nomination." No copyri... More
Wilson notification - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows President Woodrow Wilson at Shadow Lawn near Long Branch, New Jersey, where he was notified that the Democratic Party nominated him to be their candidate for reelection to the Presidency in the... More
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).
In last minute huddle. Washington, D.C., Nov. 21. Senator Clyde Herrin...
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A. Scott Bullitt, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows politician Alexander Scott Bullitt (1877-1932), a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator from Washington in 1926 and Democratic candidate for Governor of Washington in 1928. (Source: Flickr Comm... More
Big four of democratic party visit their chief. Washington D.C. July 2...
A group of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gene... More
May get TVA post. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. President Roosevelt has i...
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
Townsend bill plan dishonest sponsor tells house committee. Washington...
A black and white photo of three men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arkansas Senator. Washington, D.C., March 2. A new informal picture of...
A black and white photo of two men sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[William Jennings Bryan, Democratic party presidential candidate, thre...
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Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836
A figurative portrayal -- clearly sympathetic to the Whig party -- of the 1836 presidential election contest as a horse race between four candidates. The four are identified in the legend as (left to right): "O... More
[William Jennings Bryan, full-length view with arms spread, standing n...
No. S104428. Photo published during the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, California.
Grand National Republican banner, US Democratic party
Print shows a campaign banner for the 1876 Republican presidential ticket. Bust portraits of Ohio governor Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler are framed with laurel wreaths. Above them hang swags of dra... More
Polk in his extremity - Public domain dedication image
Henry Clay's easy ascent to the presidency here is in contrast to the serious difficulties experienced by his Democratic opponent James K. Polk. Clay has reached the top of a large pole and has the "Civic Crow... More
National Democratic Republican nomination / lith. of Endicott, 152 Ful...
A campaign broadside for Democratic candidates Martin Van Buren and Richard Johnson, produced for the presidential election of 1840. It is illustrated with: 1) a vignette of the American eagle in a halo of star... More
Our home defenders, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Republican Party presidential campaign poster shows head-and-shoulder portraits of William McKinley holding U.S. flag and standing on the gold coin of "sound money," held up by a group of men in front of the sh... More
Honest Abe taking them on the half shell
A pro-Lincoln satire. The Republican candidate ponders the miniature figures of northern and southern Democratic nominees Stephen A. Douglas (left) and John C. Breckinridge (right) which he holds before him on ... More
Inklings of travel, up Salt River
A broad satire, ridiculing all of the candidates in the 1848 presidential campaign. Swimming up "Salt River" and pulling the "Salt River Barge" is fox Martin van Buren. Seated in the barge are (left to right):... More
James Buchanan: Democratic candidate for fifteenth President of the Un...
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