Spring music - see poem page 107 / Dalrymple.
Print shows Levi P. Morton sitting in a chair on a porch, listening to the buzz of a large bee labeled "Presidential Bee"; on a table in front of him is a seltzer bottle labeled "Popularity Spring Tonic".
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Last ghost-dance of the free silver tribe - just before being sent to ...
Print shows a Native encampment of the Democrat/Populist presidential candidate and his followers dancing around a campfire labeled "Repudiation"; depicted are, from left, "Peffer, Jerry Simpson, Teller, Vest, ... More
True democracy is safe! / C.J. Taylor.
Print shows a man identified as a "Sound Money Democrat" holding up a campaign banner that states "For President - For Vice President Palmer and Buckner.
[Theodore Roosevelt with members of the Notification Committee and gue...
H48635 U.S. Copyright Office. Title devised by Library staff based on captions found on variant images. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood.
President Roosevelt, members of Notification Committee and guests, Sag...
H48695 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Theodore Roosevelt, Chrls W. Fairbanks
Print shows political campaign poster with bust portraits of, on the left, Theodore Roosevelt, for president, and, on the right, Charles W. Fairbanks, for vice president, in medallions separated by an eagle hol... More
Never too late to run / Frank A. Nankivell.
Illustration shows octogenarian Henry G. Davis as a runner being attended to by Arthur P. Gorman who is putting a bandage on Davis'es right knee. Illus. in: Puck, v. 55, no. 1430 (1904 July 27), cover. Copyrig... More
[Political cartoons related to Secretary of War William H. Taft runnin...
Two political cartoons on one sheet: cartoon on left by Clifford Berryman published in the Washington Star, April 28, 1907, shows Taft leaving a dog labeled "Politics" behind in Washington, D.C., as he travels ... More
Times have changed / K. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows a dejected, well-dressed man labeled "The Corporation" sitting next to an ice bucket filled with bottles labeled "Wall St. Brand, Privilege Brut, Immunity Fizz, [and] Stand Pat Sec", while in... More
Calaveras de caudillos de silla presidencial
Broadside shows three images of calaveras. In the center image, people flee a fearsome calavera wielding a leg bone. On the left, a calavera photographer shoots a camera. On the right, a calavera artist paints ... More
Quoth the raven, "nevermore" / Kep., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows President Taft sitting at a desk, working late, frightened, his hair standing on end, as a raven labeled "Teddy", with the face of Theodore Roosevelt, perched on a bust opposite, cries, "Nev... More
Teddy the old Dutch cleanser - with acknowledgments to Old Dutch Clean...
Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt as an old Dutch maid carrying a large club. Caption: Chases dirt - and everything else. Illus. in: Puck, v. 71, no. 1840 (1912 June 5), cover. Copyright 1912 by Keppler & ... More
Warren G. Harding - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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
Warren G. Harding - Public domain photograph, glass negative
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Harding & H.M. Doherty [i.e. Daugherty]
A black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Warren G. Harding - Public domain photograph, glass negative
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
R.B. Creager, Mrs. Harding, Mr. Harding, F.E. Scobey
A group of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mr. & Mrs. Warren G. Harding - Public domain photograph, glass negativ...
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
Warren G. Harding - Public domain photograph, glass negative
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from caption list. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Compan... More
Warren G. Harding - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a golf field, park, outdoor activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Warren G. Harding - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man playing golf. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Gibbs McAdoo, candidate on Democratic ticket
A black and white photo of a man holding a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) local, housed in former church
When Marfork Coal company, a subsidiary of Massey Coal Services, opened a non-union mine at Marfork, just above Packsville, the local union opened an outpost at the church. The signs on the church register the ... More
Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky / Hoffay ; A.A. Hoffay, pinxt. & ...
Portrait of Representative from Kentucky Richard M. Johnson, standing in a rhetorical pose and holding documents "Sunday Mail Reports" in his right hand. These refer to his important 1829 and 1830 reports, as S... More
Franklin Pierce: Democratic candidate for fourtheenth president of the...
After a daguerreotype by T. Dunlap. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2304
Honorable John C. Breckinridge: Democratic candidate for sixteenth pre...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3154
The old man and the sea - A cartoon drawing of a man in a boat
Cartoon shows Senator George McGovern as a fisherman in a small boat with the remains of a large fish, labeled "War Issue," lashed to its side, battling against high seas. Valtman alludes to Ernest Hemingway's... More
'But don't you see? If the Democratic Party is to stay young and vigor...
Cartoon shows a large group of young people of all races and ethnic groups, some with long hair, flowing mustaches, and sandals, listening to an earnest young man explain why the McGovern campaign will not supp... More
Angela Davis urges -- declare your independence : vote for Hall and Ty...
Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Here we go again - Drawing. Public domain image.
Cartoon shows the Democratic donkey and the GOP elephant as competing organ grinders, each with a monkey begging for "Votes." The organs are actually television sets, one showing the head of the Democratic pre... More
I believe him - Posters Yanker Poster Collection
Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The meeting at Saratoga. "Like boxers thus before the fight, their ha...
The second of two prints by "HD" portraying scenes from President Van Buren's visit to the resort at Saratoga Springs, New York, during the summer of 1839. (See also "The Cut Direct," no. 1839-3.) The satire co... More
Do it now! The President would jump right into river improvement and g...
Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt deeping the Mississippi River with a shovel. Inthe background Uncle Sam is digging the Panama canal and a man labeled Germany says "Der selfish pig vas g... More
Log cabin anecdotes. Illustrated incidents in the life of General Will...
A Whig campaign broadside, with text describing a series of 12 incidents in the life of William Henry Harrison, illustrated with wood-engravings. The incidents are (counterclockwise from upper left): "Harrison'... More
1904 glorias de México! Porfirio Díaz y Ramón Corral electos por el vo...
Broadside, on recto, shows the bust portrait of Porfirio Díaz. The text in verse extols the social improvements under Díaz's presidency and celebrates his re-election for the eighth term. The office of the vice... More
For president James G. Blaine, of Maine - for vice president John A. L...
Print shows James G. Blaine, bust portrait, facing front, and John A. Logan, bust portrait, facing left, in medallions linked by a ribbon with shield labeled "US" and two branches. P15012 U.S. Copyright Office.... More
For president Abraham Lincoln -- For vice president Andrew Johnson
Political campaign button for 1864 presidential election showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln on one side (Brady photo Jan. 8, 1864) and bust portrait of Andrew Johnson on the other side; meta... More
Protection and sound money, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Head-and-shoulders portraits of William McKinley and Garrett A. Hobart, on red, white, and blue placard in shape of shield. 49523B U.S. Copyright Office.
The two platforms. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Another in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The pos... More
Abraham Lincoln - Hannibal Hamlin. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Political campaign button for 1860 presidential election showing bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln on one side and bust portrait of Hannibal Hamlin on the other side; metal casing with ornamental vine border and... More
Lewis Cass, Democratic candidate for president
Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic candidates Lewis Cass and William O. Butler produced for the 1848 presidential election. The banner is designed in a horizontal format, similar to Currier's "Zachary... More
Studying political economy. Book illustration from Library of Congress
A crudely drawn but complex satire mocking Zachary Taylor's military background and lack of political experience. Student Zachary Taylor, wearing a paper cap made out of the journal "The True Whig" is seated on... More
Nixon's the one! - U.S. Presidential Elections
Public domain photograph of decorated book cover, binding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
We stand for the gold standard, ...
Campaign poster for William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, with head-and-shoulders portraits of each, on United States flags. No. 105.
Grand banner of the radical democracy, for 1864
Print shows a campaign banner for presidential nominee John C. Fremont and his running mate John Cochrane. Fremont and Cochrane were the candidates of a faction of radical Democrats consisting mostly of Germans... More
Free speech, free soil, free men. This is to certify that [blank] is a...
A membership certificate for the Wide-Awake Club, a Republican marching club formed in February or March 1860 and active throughout the North during the election campaign. The club was dedicated to the preserva... More
National Democratic banner of victory, 1868
Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic presidential candidate Horatio Seymour and running mate Francis Preston Blair, Jr., of Missouri. Above the curiously overlapping portraits of the candidates is a glo... More
A Whig parade during the Hard Cider Campaign
(DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Hard Cider Campaign of 1840," Century, 84:680 (Sept. 1912). Exhibit loan 4193-L.
[Presidential campaign button with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Ha...
Political campaign button for Abraham Lincoln's first (1860) U.S. presidential campaign. Includes a bust portrait of Lincoln on one side and a bust portrait of vice presidential nominee Hannibal Hamlin on the o... More
The republican souvenir / steincopied by the Hatch Eng. Co. N.Y.
Print shows bust portraits of presidential and vice-presidential candidates James G. Blaine and John A. Logan, as well as a full-length view of James A. Garfield speaking on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's as... More
Bursting the balloon - Political cartoon, public domain image
Democratic frustrations in the race for the "Presidential Chair" are again parodied in the sequel or companion to "Balloon Ascension to the Presidential Chair" (no. 1844-32). Here the ascent of the Democrats is... More
George Hunt - Grand National Democratic banner. Peace! Union! and vict...
Print shows a campaign banner, almost identical to the "Grand National Union Banner" (no. 1864-13) except for the inclusion of portraits of Democratic candidates George B. McClellan and George H. Pendleton, two... More
George Hunt - Grand National Democratic banner. Peace! Union! and vict...
Print shows a campaign banner, almost identical to the "Grand National Union Banner" (no. 1864-13) except for the inclusion of portraits of Democratic candidates George B. McClellan and George H. Pendleton, two... More
The national game. Three "outs" and one "run"
A pro-Lincoln satire, deposited for copyright weeks before the 1860 presidential election. The contest is portrayed as a baseball game in which Lincoln has defeated (left to right) John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas... More
National Democratic chart, 1876--For president, Samuel J. Tilden, for ...
A large campaign chart features the portraits of Democratic presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden and running mate Thomas A. Hendricks and smaller medallion portraits. The candidates are shown in roundel bust... More
Sitting up with a sick friend / L.M. Glackens.
Illustration shows President Taft lying in a bed with a "Reactionary Ice Bag" on his head; the Republican elephant is keeping a bedside vigil and attempting to keep him cool with a fan labeled "Hope". On a near... More
Tyrants prostrate liberty triumphant, Political Cartoon
A polemic applauding Democratic support of the Dorrite cause in Rhode Island. (See also "Trouble in the Spartan Ranks," and "The Great Political Car and Last Load of Patriots," nos. 1843-6 and 1845-5). In the ... More
Sold for want of use - Public domain book illustration, Library of Con...
Bucholzer again uses animal characterizations to poke fun at the respective faults of prominent Democrats in the 1844 presidential race. In an interior, Whig nominee Henry Clay conducts a livestock auction, off... More
Texas coming in. Book illustration from Library of Congress
A pro-Democrat cartoon forecasting the collapse of Whig opposition to the annexation of Texas. James K. Polk, the expansionist candidate, stands at right near a bridge spanning "Salt River." He holds an America... More
The whale that swallowed Jonah - Public domain book illustration, Libr...
An election-year cartoon satirizing disharmony within the Whig ranks on the bank issue. The artist suggests a division of opinion between New England's Daniel Webster and presidential nominee Henry Clay on the ... More
Rowing him up Salt River - Public domain book illustration, Library of...
The cartoonist is optimistic about the prospects of Whig presidential candidate Zachary Taylor, here shown rowing Democratic oppponent Lewis Cass up the river of political misfortune. Cass, seated in the stern,... More
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows"
A satire on the unlikely alliance of rival editors Horace Greeley and James Watson Webb in support of Zachary Taylor for the presidency in 1848. Unlike Webb, one of Taylor's earliest and most enthusiastic New Y... More
The grand national fight 2 against 1 fought on the 6th of Nov. 1856 fo...
The familiar metaphor of the presidential contest as a boxing match is invoked once again. (For an earlier example see "Set to Between the Champion Old Tip and the Swell Dutchman of Kinderhook," no. 1836-12.) T... More
Honorable John C. Breckinridge: Democratic candidate for sixteenth pre...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3153
The undecided political prize fight, Political Cartoon
A pro-Breckinridge satire on the 1860 presidential contest. Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln (right) and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas (left) appear as boxers squaring off in a ring before a small crowd of on... More
Presidential electioneering in New York--a street scene ; Presidential...
Illus. in: The Illustrated London news, 1864 supplement, Oct. 15, p. 349.
Republican invincibles - Public domain portrait print
Political campaign button for 1864 presidential election showing bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln, facing right (possibly Wenderoth & Taylor photo); metal shield with oval window and with pin fastener attached.... More
[Photograph of a campaign button with portrait of Abraham Lincoln and ...
Stamped on verso: Gift, Joseph Verner Reed, July 22, 1955. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Lincoln ... Campaign.
Waiting for the word - Drawing. Public domain image.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Caricature, A sop to Cerberus / Gillam., public domain cartoon image
Print shows Chester A. Arthur offering a "Bill Excluding Chinese for 10 Years", in the shape of a Chinese man's face, to a three-headed Cerberus labeled "Western Vote" with the heads labeled "Demagogue, Hoodlum... More
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
George Hunt - Democratic harmony under the Jeffersonian banner / J. Ke...
Illustration shows Thomas F. Bayard carrying a banner that shows a portrait of Thomas Jefferson and is labeled "Jeffersonian Principles", with a streamer at top that states "A Government of the People, by the P... More
Our national dog-show / Gillam., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows a dog show where a variety of breeds are competing; in the upper left corner, labeled the "Judges' Stand" are several newspaper editors, among them are James Gordon Bennett (N.Y. Herald), Whi... 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
Shylock's bad bargain / Gillam., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows Jay Gould as Shakespeare's Shylock from the Merchant of Venice, racing past the Doges' Palace in the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice, being hounded by several men labeled "German Vote, Merch... More
Men may come, and men may go; but the work of reform shall go on forev...
Illustration shows Columbia standing with Puck's figure for the "Independent" party/vote and Puck who is holding a design drawing for a statue labeled "Reform", which is under construction behind them by "D.W. ... More
[Grover Cleveland for president campaign memorabilia fragment]
Print fragment shows a portrait of Andrew Jackson, a tree, and a harp with a banner above stating "Jacks[...]berty" and text below stating "For President of the United States. Grover Cleveland." Related to AMB... More
The fishing season of 1884 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The only source from which he gets absolution / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows Whitelaw Reid, as a bishop, absolving James G. Blaine, who is kneeling on a long list of scandals, at a confessional labeled "Tribune Sanctum". Includes a statement published in the "N.Y. Tri... More
Caricature, "A unit" / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows Grover Cleveland shaking hands with Puck's figure for the Independent Party labeled "Independent Voter"; behind them are bell tents with banners labeled "Reform". In the lower left corner is ... More
The "three honest men" of Wall Street declare for Blaine / F. Opper.
Illustration shows Russell Sage, Jay Gould, and Cyrus W. Field as the Three Musketeers standing on Wall Street with their swords raised in support of James G. Blaine as the Republican presidential candidate; Sa... More
Caricature, His soonness / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows New York Governor Hill pressing the "Notoriety" button for the "Presidential Elevator"; Uncle Sam, the manager of the elevator, is sitting nearby and tells Hill that he is too early, also sug... More
Puck's presidential possibilities. No. I, The national knife-grinder /...
Print shows presidential hopeful John Sherman, wearing a tall stove-pipe hat, standing in the middle of a village street, operating a grinding wheel labeled "Nomination" and sharpening a large knife labeled "La... More
The new coat / F. Opper. - Public domain photogrpaph
Print shows William E. Chandler as a store clerk at the "Republican Misfit Clothing Company" helping David B. Hill purchase some new clothes; Hill is trying on a new coat that has a large golden medal labeled "... More
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Well protected / C.J. Taylor. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Print shows William McKinley walking down a street in the neighborhood of "Anarchy Slum" with a tall, well-dressed female figure labeled "Gold Standard" on his arm and two policemen labeled "Palmer" and "Buckne... More
Caricature, Put in his place / Dalrymple., public domain cartoon image
Print shows William Bourke Cockran, labeled "Democratic Sound Money League" delivering a speech at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during which he presses down upon the back of William Jennings Bryan wh... More
Poor Tammany! / F. Opper. - Public domain portrait engraving
Print shows the Tammany Tiger wearing a campaign button that states "16 to 1 Bryan and Sewall", and a watch chain with a "Pawn Ticket" instead of the watch, bemoaning the fact that the Republican Party platform... 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
How will our German-American vote? / Dalrymple.
Illustration shows an elderly German American man with one hand pointing to his head and the other pointing to a coin bank labeled "Savings Bank" on a table, he winks to reinforce that he thinks his investments... More
The power behind the scare-crow / J.S. Pughe.
Illustration shows a scarecrow in a corn field labeled "Nomination"; it is fashioned out of pieces of cloth labeled with the names of several states "Indiana, Illinois, Mass., Mich., Georgia, New York, Pennsylv... More
"Terrible Teddy" waits for "the unknown" / Keppler.
Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt as a boxer sitting on a stool with his arms resting on the ropes in the near corner of a boxing ring, waiting for a challenger to enter the ring and sit in the va... More
President Roosevelt, Speaker Cannon and the Republican Notification Co...
H48692 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
The courtship of Bill Taft / Keppler.
Illustration shows a shy Theodore Roosevelt, as John Alden, talking to Priscilla Mullins labeled "Republican Party" sitting before a fireplace, with spinning wheel nearby, while William H. Taft, as Myles Standi... More
Taft in Iowa, George Grantham Bain Collection
William Howard Taft campaigning from back of train. George Grantham Bain Collection. No. 470-28.
The live wire / K. - Public domain dedication image
Illustration shows a live wire transmitting electricity spelling "Vice Presidency" dripping red drops and with jolts of lightning around it as it dangles between potential candidates in the upcoming presidentia... More
"Go home! D'yer hear me? Go home!" / L.M. Glackens.
Illustration shows a man labeled "Republican Campaign Manager" waving a cane, topped with the head of an elephant, at a small dog wearing a collar labeled "The Tariff" that has been following him. Illus. in: P... More