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Kansas Equal Suffrage

Date: 1912
Description: Depiction of a man and a woman each putting their votes into a ballot box, touting equal suffrage: "For a better government of the people, by the people, a...
Print

Democratic Ticket

Date: 1860
Description: 1860 Presidential Democratic ticket headed by John C. Breckenridge (it should be spelled Breckinridge), and the vice-president, Joseph Lane, that was distr...
Poster

Register Your Discontent. Vote.

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician...
Poster

Nitty Gritty "Live Rock" Poster

Date: 12 08 1970
Description: Poster advertising live music at the Nitty Gritty. The noted bands are Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang and Spectre Inc. The text is in the shape of a hot air ballo...
Photograph

Civics Club Suffragists

Date: 
Description: Five Civics Club members pose in a cardboard automobile in front of a painted backdrop as suffragists. They're wearing period costumes and holding "Vote" s...
Print

The Nation's Binder

Date: 1890
Description: Color advertising cartoon depicting Uncle Sam with arms outstretched over a Deering grain binder. Hybrids of binders by rival manufacturers are depicted on...
Photograph

Voting Rights Protesters

Date: 1964
Description: View towards sidewalk of a line of demonstrators carrying signs during a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. A man walking along the sidewalk holds ...
Postcard

Socialist Worker Party Campaign Material

Date: 1932
Description: Bookmark-sized card encouraging voters to cast ballots for Socialist candidates. The card is marked authorized by Carl R. Hampel, 536 W. Juneau Ave.
Poster

"It's Too Bad That the Taxpayer . . ."

Date: 
Description: Cartoon of an overweight man wearing a suit and tie. Text reads: "It's too bad that the taxpayer can't vote for a job and raise his own salary! As his poli...
Map or Atlas

Black Suffrage Referendum Map

Date: 1900
Description: Hand-drawn and colored maps of Wisconsin showing how each county voted in the gubernatorial race of 1865, and on a referendum regarding suffrage for Africa...
Poster

We Are Americans

Date: 
Description: Poster title at top reads: "We are Americans" and text below reads: "We Vote." Text at bottom reads: "CIO National Political Action Committee." The blue ba...
Poster

Register to Vote Flyer

Date: 1965
Description: A poster created by The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party depicting a group of African American people standing together and holding hands. The text rea...
Historical Object

Jane Addams

Date: 
Description: Album page that includes newspaper clippings of articles, and a portrait of Miss Addams.
Book or Pamphlet

Who Are The Freedom Democratic Party Candidates?

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Description: Page 8 of a Freedom Primer which lists candidates for the Freedom Democratic Party. There is a simple drawing of Fannie Lou Hamer with a Freedom Vote banne...

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