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Sympathy [Labor] Parade -- [1916], 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Sympathy [Labor] Parade -- [1916], 1916. Shows crowd at a labor sympathy parade in New York City on Dec. 2, 1916. People hold signs reading: "We demand the liberty of all the labor prisoners"

May Day '13, strikers in Union Square, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
May Day '13, strikers in Union Square, 1913. Shows crowd gathered in Union Square, New York City during the May Day parade, May 1, 1913. Some hold signs in Yiddish, Italian and English

Socialists in Union Square, N.Y.C. [large crowd] Photo, 1 May 1912 - Bain Coll. 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Socialists in Union Square, N.Y.C. [large crowd] Photo, 1 May 1912 - Bain Coll. 1912

Margaret Hinchey, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Margaret Hinchey, 1914. Shows Irish-American suffrage activist Margaret Hinchey, who also served as head of the Laundry Workers Union of New York

"Infant Orphan Election at the London Tavern - Polling", by G.E. Hicks... 1865. Creator: W Thomas
"Infant Orphan Election at the London Tavern - Polling", by G.E. Hicks, in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1865. Engraving of a painting

The Elections in the Metropolitan Boroughs: Lambeth...the nomination at Kennington Park, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Elections in the Metropolitan Boroughs: Lambeth election: the nomination at Kennington Park, [London], 1865. View in front of the main entrance to Kennington Park

Presidential electioneering in New York: torchlight procession of the M'Clellan party, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Presidential electioneering in New York: torchlight procession of the M'Clellan party, 1864. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. C. D

The election of Mr. Horatio Seymour, Governor of the State of New York…, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The election of Mr. Horatio Seymour, Governor of the State of New York: Democratic procession passing the New York Hotel, 1862

The Lambeth Election: the Hustings at Kennington, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Lambeth Election: the Hustings at Kennington, [London], 1857. The nomination took place...at the Triangle, Kennington-park...Mr

Scenes from the Elections - drawn by George Thomas, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Scenes from the Elections - drawn by George Thomas, 1857. Voting in Britain. In the 1857 general election, the Whigs, led by Lord Palmerston, won a majority in the House of Commons

Les fetes de la victoire a New-York; les herauts d'armes de la 1st division Americaine, 1919. Creator: Unknown
Les fetes de la victoire a New-York; les herauts d'armes de la 1st division Americaine, 1919. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

The Lambeth Election - the Hustings on Kennington Common, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Lambeth Election - the Hustings on Kennington Common, 1850....nomination of candidates for the representation in Parliament of the [London] borough of Lambeth...a considerable number of persons

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in

Mass meeting of WPA workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California. The meeting was held in protest to cuts made by Congress in relief appropriations

Mass meeting of WPA workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California. The meeting was held in protest to cuts made by Congress in relief appropriations

Mass meeting of WPA workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers parading up Market Street. San Francisco, California. The meeting was held in protest to cuts make by Congress in relief appropriations

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in

The Great City Meeting at Guildhall - (Exterior), 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great City Meeting at Guildhall - (Exterior), 1850....a meeting was held in the Guildhall, [in London], which was crowded to excess...Mr

Four firms being picketed, 42nd Street, New York City, New York, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
New York City. Four firms on 42nd Street in block east of Fifth Avenue were being picketed in this manner on this afternoon

Firms being picketed, 42nd Street, New York City, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
New York City. Four firms on 42nd Street in block east of Fifth Avenue were being picketed in this manner on this afternoon

Program for Coon Town Suffragettes, 1914. Creator: Unknown
A four page program for the silent short film Coon Town Suffragettes. On the first page of the program is a woman standing on a pedestal like box appearing to address a larger group of women

Night-scene in a Dublin-street, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Night-scene in a Dublin-street, 1844. Crowds celebrate after Irish nationalist politician Daniel O Connell was released from prison. From " Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I

Pair of Stereograph Views of General Jacob S. Coxeys Army of the Unemployed, 1850s-1910s

Procession to The Hustings After A Successful Canvass, April 30, 1784. April 30, 1784
Procession to The Hustings After A Successful Canvass, April 30, 1784

Hoch the Kaiser! : cheering crowds in the streets, Berlin, Germany, 4 August 1914, (1933). Pictures of the two Kaisers, Wilhelm II of Germany and Franz Josef of Austria

Russians praying for the success of their forces, Petrograd, First World War, 1914, (c1920). Citizens offering up prayers for the victory of Russias arms

The French Call to Arms: Reservists joining the Colours in Paris, 1920. Creator: Unknown
The French Call to Arms: Reservists joining the Colours in Paris, c1914, (c1920). Street singers and others joining up at the beginning of the First World War

Civil servants protesting against salary cuts, London, October 1931, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Civil servants protesting against salary cuts, London, October 1931, (1935). Protest Against Economy Cuts...a mass demonstration of an entirely peaceful nature

Suffragettes demonstrate outside a prison, London, 1914, (1947). Creator: Unknown
Suffragettes demonstrate outside a prison, London, 1914, (1947). Campaigners for womens suffrage wearing sandwich boards criticising the then British government

Street meeting, San Francisco, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street meeting. San Francisco, California

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