As the United States holds its 2020 presidential elections, we rounded up a selection of images that reflect the importance of voting–throughout history and around the world. We encourage you to cast a vote and make your voice heard.
Ottenheimer, I. and M. (Baltimore, Md.). Women and children performing suffrage tableau in front of the United States Treasury. 1913 Mar 03. Photograph, gelatin silver prints. Image from Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Chamberlain, Kenneth Russell. Let them vote what wants to! Between 1920 and 1940. Image and original data from: Virga, Vincent, and Curators of the Library of Congress, with commentary by Alan Brinkley (2004).
Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914). The Board of Election Inspectors in the Beach Street School. ca. 1890. Portrait of three girls who served as inspectors in the first Board of Election at the Beach Street Industrial School. Image from Museum of the City of New York.
Charles Maurand. Rejoicing in New York on the occasion of the election of President Lincoln–the cortege arrives at Union Square. After 1860. Wood engraving. Image and original data provided by Reunion des Musees Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y.
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British. A Tub Thumper. An Election Speech. Between 1817 and 1920. Drawing and Watercolor. Image and data from Yale Center for British Art.
