political activity

Hughes, Hearst, Heaven or Hell? It's up to you

Political postcard showing bust-portraits of Republican Charles E. Hughes (left) and Democrat William R. Hearst (right), candidates in the New York Governor race of 1906. H83538 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyrigh... More

[Pablo Ocampo, Resident Commissioner to the United States from the Phi...

H106986 U.S. Copyright Office Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

We want our rights Rea Irvin - Public domain print

Single panel cartoon, drawn in the style of the decoration on a Greek vase, shows Susan B. Anthony, clad in flowing garments, poking a startled man in the chest with an umbrella. She is followed by other women... More

The mascot / painted by Rolf Armstrong.

Illustration shows head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman wearing a uniform and Puck holding a large pencil, both wear sashes labeled "Votes for Women". Illus. in: Puck, v. 77, no. 1981 (1915 February 20), cov... More

Miss Mary Gertrude Fendall, of Baltimore, Md., national organizer for ...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917): 10. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, seated, Mary... More

Philippine Commissioner Yangco Teodoro R. Yangco, Resident Commissione...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members leaving a prison building. Warden Zinkham (left).

[Mrs.] Lawrence Lewis [Dora Lewis] of Philadelphia on release from jai...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Outdoor photograph of Mrs. Lawrence Lewis (Dora Lewis) (center) upon her release from jail, where she participated in hunger strike after arrest at Lafayette Square meeting... More

Lucy Branham on Prison Special, San Francisco, California

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

Palmer Committee - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a family posing for a picture. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irish freedom demonstration - Public domain demonstration 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

Newark women plod in snow to plea for food

Women walking through snow and slush in Newark, New Jersey, to the city hall to place before Mayor Raymond a resolution calling for purchase and sale by the city of needed food. Photo from Central News Photo Se... More

But there was one knight--the White Knight--a descendant of the house ...

List of people involved in Clare Boothe Luce's 1944 re-election campaign for US representative from the 4th district of Connecticut (Fairfield County) against Margaret E. Connors, Deputy Secretary of State of C... More

[Puerto Ricans demonstrate for civil rights at City Hall, New York Cit...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, 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

Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), Rep. Willia...

Title from contact sheet folder caption; remainder of title devised by Library staff. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 24471, frame 17A. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Rep... More

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

President Gerald Ford at a farmers' market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvan...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford Philadelphia Debate Trip, 9/23-24/76. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[Jimmy Carter eats with his brother, Billy Carter, during a campaign s...

Contact sheet folder caption: Carter campaign trip ... at Billy's station where they barbecued chicken, and he got some and went inside the station and sat down to eat with Billy. TOH. U.S. News & World Report... More

[President Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter on television during 1st presi...

Contact sheet folder caption: Ford-Carter TV Debate from TV screen. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[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

Ye May session of ye woman's rights convention - ye orator of ye day d...

Print shows a group of women in a hall listening to a woman speaker who is pointing to the men sitting in an upper gallery. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 3, no. 128 (1859 June 11), p. 372.

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)

Politics in an oyster-house / painted by Woodville ;lithographed by Fa...

Two men in discussion. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Politics in an oyster-house / painted by Woodville ;lithographed by Fa...

Two men in discussion. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Village politicians / painted by D. Wilkie, R.A. ; etch'd by A. Raimba...

Print showing two groups of men discussing politics in a dwelling or public house. Library has three impressions of different states, one dated "First proof, Augt. 30th 1813." Inscribed in ink on undated proof... More

Members of the Legislature, State of Mississippi, 1874-'75 / photograp...

Photograph shows a montage of seventy-five portraits of members of the Mississippi State Legislature (1874-1875), with many African American representatives. Includes a key with the names of legislators depicte... More

[Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse...

Photo shows lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain riding astride in the March 3, 1913, suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., as the first of four mounted heralds. Additional information about the Bain Collection is ... More

Andrew resolute Uncle Sam's faithful teamster, taking the produce of t...

The artist supports Andrew Jackson's decision to withdraw federal funds from the Bank of the United States and distribute them among various state banks. Henry Clay and Bank president Nicholas Biddle's efforts... More

The new era / V.F. wood engraving, Library of Congress

A former slave owner, General Wade Hampton, wearing oversized spurs, a hat with a ragged peacock feather stuck in the band, and a cat-o'-nine-tails sticking out of a pocket, speaking to a former slave identifie... More

The newspaper men with Senator Kean, Secretary Loeb and, Secretary Bar...

H48699 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Left to Right: Doris Stevens, Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins [Alison Turnbull Hop...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Outdoor photograph of three National Woman's Party members in prison dress carrying wooden chairs, on rooftop of building. (Left to right): Doris Stevens, Alison Turnbull H... More

C.C. Carlin on stand, 52620 - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Caption from caption list: Hon. C.C. Carlin, campaign manager for Atty. General A. Mitchell Palmer photogr... More

[Embossed red leather album cover with text: "Clare Boothe Luce"]

In album: Tale of Politics, starring Clare Boothe Luce, compiled by Tere C. Pascone, front cover. Published in: Photographic memory: the album in the age of photography / Verna Posever Curtis. New York, NY : A... More

Motor City comics. Lenore Goldberg and her girl commandos

Print shows page from comic strip in which the girl commandos are subdued by the police after disrupting a beauty pagent; Lenore manages to evade capture after her clothing is torn off and she kicks a policeman... More

Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Shirley Chisholm WKL

Photograph shows Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm speaking into a microphone. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 24470, frame 17A. Forms... More

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

Photograph shows Rep. Shirley Chisholm, Rep. Parren Mitchell, Rep. Charles Rangel, and Rep. Bella Abzug seated at a table with microphones. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for r... 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 Carter and Sen. Hubert Humphrey at the Democratic National Conv...

Contact sheet folder caption: Democratic Convention in N.Y.C. ... Jimmy Carter & Sen. Hubert Humphrey .... WKL. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[President Gerald Ford, surrounded by security staff, waves to crowd f...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford Philadelphia Debate Trip, 9/23-24/76. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[Jimmy Carter shaking hands after leaving a church in Jacksonville, Fl...

Contact sheet folder caption: Carter campaign trip ... coming out of church, shaking hands with tourists and friends ... Jacksonville, Fla. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact... More

[President Gerald Ford greets a group of young women dressed as Southe...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford campaign trip thru the deep South La., Miss., Ala., & Fla., 9/25-27/76. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for refere... 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

[Jimmy Carter makes a campaign stop at his brother Billy's gas station...

Contact sheet folder caption: Carter campaign trip ... at Billy's station .... TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[Reporters in press room observe President Gerald Ford on television d...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford's arrival in Phil., Pa. for 1st debate w/Carter, 9/28/76 [i.e., 9/23/76]. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for refe... More

[Demonstrators opposed to the ERA in front of the White House]

Women holding signs against the Federal Equal Rights Amendment gathered outside the White House. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress gui... More

Members of the Legislature, State of Mississippi, 1874-'75 / photograp...

Photograph shows a montage of seventy-five portraits of members of the Mississippi State Legislature (1874-1875), with many African American representatives. Includes a key with the names of legislators depicte... More

[Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer on flag-draped podium duri...

Date from caption list. No. 7478. LOT subdivision subject: U.S. Congress & Cabinet. From negative LC-F8-7478, which was subsequently retouched. Formerly in Portrait file. Forms part of: National Photo Company ... More

[German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" with othe...

Title devised by Library staff based on New York Times article, March 3, 1913. Caption in the photograph may refer to one of the background figures in veils: "Florence F. Noyes as 'Liberty' in suffrage pageant.... More

The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box. A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line. Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1869, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's office of the Di... More

[Village politicians - preliminary proof]

Print showing two groups of men discussing politics in a dwelling or public house. Title from later edition. Library has two impressions of different states.

The election, a medley, humbly inscribed to Squire Lilliput, professor...

Cartoon shows the old courthouse in Philadelphia during the October 1, 1764 election where a line of men wait at the steps on the right to enter the courthouse and cast their votes; in the foreground, many men,... More

Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser, clearing Uncle Sam's barn of ...

A rare pro-Jackson satire on the President's campaign to destroy the political power and influence of the Bank of the United States. It was probably issued late in the presidential campaign of 1832, after Jacks... More

Troubled treasures. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A crudely drawn anti-Jackson satire, applauding Henry Clay's orchestration of Congressional resistance to the President's plan to withdraw Treasury funds from the Bank of the United States. The print also attac... More

General Jackson slaying the many headed monster

A satire on Andrew Jackson's campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States and its support among state banks. Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and Jack Downing struggle against a snake with heads representing the... More

Washington, D.C. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representativ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Speaker Cannon formally notifying President Roosevelt of his nominatio...

H48703 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fay Hubbard, 19-year old suffragette, full-length portrait, standing,...

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petrograd. The Russian's favorite way of letting off steam. A popular ...

Photograph of Russian's favorite shows soldiers on horseback; way of letting off steam shows people carrying a banner and marching. From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and As... More

Tier in D.C. prison where suffragists were confined in 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of interior of prison, with cells, tables and chairs.

Baggage for Prison Special - Jackson Place Hdqtrs on Lafayette Sq.

Indian bonus veteran - Theodor Horydczak collection

Photograph shows four men, probably veterans, sitting on a bench with tents in the background, probably at the Bonus Expeditionary Forces assemblage in Washington, D.C. One of the men is wearing a traditional ... More

Tale of Politics, starring Clare Boothe Luce

Title page for album with hand-painted text surrounded by cartouche of autumn leaves. Album details Clare Boothe Luce's 1944 re-election campaign for US representative from the 4th district of Connecticut (Fai... More

[Anti-Vietnam war protest and demonstration in front of the White Hous...

Photograph shows anti-war demonstrators carrying signs, "No more...Stop the war!", "Eartha Kitt speaks for the women of America", and "Stop the draft", picketing in front of the White House. Contact sheet avai... More

Women's liberation march from Farrugut Square to Layfette i.e., Lafaye...

Photograph shows women carrying banners and signs while marching down a street in Washington, D.C., during a demonstration in favor of equal rights for women. Title transcribed from contact sheet folder caption... More

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

[President Gerald Ford greets a crowd from the sunroof of a car at a c...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford campaign trip thru the deep South La., Miss., Ala., & Fla., 9/25-27/76. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for refere... More

[Cathey Steinberg, Sara Nichols, Hilda Pemberton, Representative Conni...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1991-730 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1991-730, frame 24A/25. Contact sheet or negative ... More

[African American men walking on a sidewalk, probably on Capitol Hill,...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1995-834 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1995-834, frame 21. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

Official program - Woman suffrage procession, Washington, D.C. March 3...

Cover of program for the National American Women's Suffrage Association procession, showing woman, in elaborate attire, with cape, blowing long horn, from which is draped a "votes for women" banner, on decorate... More

Village politicians / painted by D. Wilkie, R.A. ; etch'd by A. Raimba...

Print showing two groups of men discussing politics in a dwelling or public house. Library has three impressions of different states, one dated "First proof, Augt. 30th 1813." Inscribed in ink on undated proof... More

Women! Free our sisters - images Black History Month

Poster showing four women demonstrating for release of six members of the Black Panther Party from the Niantic State Women's Farm in Connecticut.

Then and now - 1862 and 1882 The stalwart medal - Puck's idea of the d...

Prints shows Ulysses S. Grant in crocodile skin in front of bill posted on wall, "Order No. 11 by U.S. Grant, 1862, excluding Jews from the army," and holding paper which reads "Meeting Chickering Hall, sympath... More

Radical members of the first legislature after the war, South Carolina

Photomontage of members of the first South Carolina legislature following the Civil War, mounted on card with each member identified. 7378G U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Mercer Brown. On verso of mount: S... More

Charles Stuart Parnell, M.P. president of the Irish Land League - addr...

Print shows Charles Stuart Parnell, member of Parliament, standing with one arm raised in front of a group of men. Standing behind him are J.G. Biggar, M.P., T. Sexton, M.P., J.W. [i.e., T.D.] Sullivan, M.P., ... More

Raising the "No more war" banner over the headquarters of the Council ...

Photograph shows a large group, mostly women, in front the National Council for Reduction of Armaments headquarters, in the same building as the National League of Women Voters headquarters, 532 17th St., N.W.,... More

The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box. A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line. Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1869, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's office of the Di... More

For Governor Col. Theodore Roosevelt, For Lieut. Governor Timothy L. W...

Print shows a portrait of New York State gubernatorial candidate Theodore Roosevelt with candidate for Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff. "Copyright 18[9?]8 Rockwood, N.Y." printed below image.

John Hancock's defiance: July 4th 1776

Reference print in LOT 4412 LB. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3528.

Les dames de la Halle partant pour aller chercher le Roi a Versailles,...

Print shows a large procession of women and some members of the National Guard, with a carriage and a covered wagon, marching to Versailles. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de l... More

General F.P. Blair, Democratic nominee for Vice-President of the Unite...

Two illustrations: head-and-shoulders portrait of Gen. Frank P. Blair, facing right; and political meeting of African Americans outdoors. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 12, no. 604 (1868 July 25), p. 468.

For President Teddy the rough rider, his policy equal rights for all

J11488 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vida Milholland [in jail cell]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Vida Milholland behind bars in a jail cell (District Jail, Washington, D.C.). Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 5 (Feb. 9,... More

[Policewoman arrests Florence Youmans of Minnesota and Annie Arniel (c...

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

Hospital at D.C. prison showing, on 3rd floor right, Alice Paul's wind...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of exterior of prison hospital. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1919): 6.

Palmer Committee - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a couple, husband and wife, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the Univer...

Photograph showing Gov. Wallace standing defiantly at a door while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet a... More

Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Stokes, Rep. Collins, Rep. Diggs, Rep....

Photograph shows Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), George W. Collins (D-Ill.), Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) talking at a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus. Title from contact shee... More

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 22. Forms part of: U.S. News... More

Reverend Jessee [i.e., Jesse] Jackson's march for jobs -- around the W...

Photograph shows Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magaz... More

[President Gerald Ford shakes hands with a young woman dressed as a So...

Public domain photo of wedding, wedding photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Jimmy Carter at a street rally during a campaign stop in Cleveland, O...

Contact sheet folder caption: Carter campaign trip ... Street rally outside Bond Court hotel in downtown Cleveland .... TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for... More

[President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford smile at a young woma...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford campaign trip thru the deep South La., Miss., Ala., & Fla., 9/25-27/76. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for refere... More

[President Gerald Ford is welcomed at a campaign stop in the South]

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford campaign trip thru the deep South La., Miss., Ala., & Fla., 9/25-27/76. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for refere... More

[Jimmy Carter speaking to a crowd at a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pe...

Contact sheet folder caption: Carter campaign, Pittsburg[h] ... Carter talking to school children of Our Lady of Sacred Heart school in Polish Hill neighborhood .... TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Phot... More

[President Gerald Ford greets supporters at the 1st presidential debat...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford's arrival in Phil., Pa. for 1st debate w/Carter, 9/28/76 [i.e., 9/23/76]. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for refe... More

[Walter Cronkite on television during 1st presidential debate between ...

Contact sheet folder caption: Ford-Carter TV Debate from TV screen. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[First Lady Rosalynn Carter with Waylon Jennings, smoking a cigarette,...

Contact sheet folder caption: Rosalynn Carter host reception preceding Carter Mondale campaign benefit concert. WKL & MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for r... More

Three African American women singing and walking in a street in the Ca...

Photograph by "DS." Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1995-851 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1995-851, frame 17. Contact sh... More