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This delegation of officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association received from President Wilson a memorial to the French women in which he advocates the federal woman suffrage amendment. The picture was made on steps leading to…

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This cartoon shows politicians, including New York gubernatorial candidate Theodore Roosevelt, cozying up to the "working man," as the 1898 congressional and state elections entered the final week. Berryman points out the attention lavished on the…

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This cartoon depicts a large pool of primary candidates early in the 1948 campaign before the field narrowed. Printed in the Washington Evening Star on the day of the critical Nebraska primary, it shows the Republican Party elephant as a watchful…

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This cartoon depicts the two big winners on Election Day, 1917, in New York. Voters adopted a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution, a measure backed by Tammany Hall, New York City's Democratic political machine. On the same day,…

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The District of Columbia was originally created as a territory under federal control to prevent any one state from dominating the new federal government. The argument over national representation and home rule began almost immediately after the…
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