Candidates Collection

Labour Candidates
Labour candidates. - A postcard with a dual meaning, both a satire on potential Labour Party MPs and three down and out men all of whom are good candidates as labourers. Date: circa 1900s

Scottish Communist party parliamentary candidates 1979
Scotland's Communist prospective parliamentary candidates gather in Glasgow in April 1979. Raymond Mennie, second from left

Royal Caledonian Orphan Asylum, Bushey - Candidate List
Details of boy candidates being proposed for election for admission to the Royal Caledonian Orphan Asylum, Bushey, Hertfordshire. Date: 1908

The General Election - The Candidates Vision
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - The Candidates Vision. The glorious reception given to Josh Binks M.P. 1908

The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles

THEATRICAL COSTUMES / C18
The Theatrical candidates 18th century Actors and Actresses Date: circa 1770

EGYPTIAN INITIATION
In Ancient Egypt, candidates for the priesthood are subjected to a series of ordeals to prove their suitability Date: BC

The Election, chairing the member, by William Hogarth
4.THE ELECTION Chairing the Member Date: 1758

The Election by William Hogarth
1. Humours of an election, entertainment Date: AFTER 1752

Suffragette Votes for Women Voting Form. Card in the form of a voting form with list of candidates. Headed HoMe Service, Votes for Women. Date: circa 1908

River baptism at Fishguard, Wales
The Reverend Dan Davies standing alone with his arms outstretched in the river in Fishguard, Wales, at the conclusion of a public baptismal service

Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in Chicago: Bates, Pennington, Chase, Fremont, Lincoln, Seward, Banks, McLean, Cameron, Bell and Clay. Wood engraving (1860)

Testing Candidates by William Heath Robinson
Testing candidates for the position of water diviner on the Metropolitan Water Board. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C. Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library Date: 1947

Suffragette Election Time Cambridge. A view of election time in Cambridge which shows a variety of candidates including a woman campaigning for the vote. Date: 1910

Suffragette Election 1910 Shell Advert. All Parliamentary Candidates insist on having Shell motor spirit Includes a suffragette candidate

Women candidates for parliament, 1919
Four female candidates for Parliament in the 1918 General Election, when women over the age of 30 were given the vote for the first time

Allied soldiers undergoing training as snipers 1916
Candidates undergoing special training as snipers during the First World War. Date: 1916

LCC-MFB Recruitment strength test
There were many applications to join the MFB and there were about 99% rejections. A stern standard of physical fitness was laid down by the LCC and the Brigade

Some deserving candidates for the hero fund. Illustration shows a series of nine vignettes to the left and across the top of a main illustration

National Democratic Banner

Democratic candidates. For president, Alton B. Parker. For vice-president, Henry C. Davis. Date c1904

Republican candidates

Republican candidates. For President, Theo. Roosevelt. For Vice President, Chas. W. Fairbanks

The sphinx and the candidates. Illustration shows Charles Evans Hughes as a sphinx labeled Senate and Assembly in a desert at night with a donkey and an elephant standing in the foreground

Grand, National, Whig Banner. Press Onward. Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)

Grand, National, American Banner. Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871)

Grand, National, Democratic Banner. Press Onward. James K. (James Knox) Polk (1795-1849), George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864)

National Democratic Banner of Victory, 1868. Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), Frank P. (Frank Preston) Blair (1821-1875) Date: 1868

Grand National Republican Banner. Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Territory. John Charles Fremont (1813-1890), William L. (William Lewis) Dayton (1807-1864)

Kid Lewis canvassing as a candidate for Mosleys New Party
Kid Lewis, triple boxing champion and ex-holder of the world welterweight title standing as a New Party candidate in Whitechapel, East London

Workhouse inmate Mary Jane promoting charitable work
A postcard promoting the work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Its caption reads Mary Jane, who is a deaf and blind inmate of a Workhouse in Devonshire

Elections of 1852 by Phiz
Two contrasting images of a successful party candidate leaning from the window of a tavern to receive the congratulations of his supporters

Creative ways of electioneering, 1910
A model dreadnought emblazoned with posters and the candidates names encourages voters in Taunton in Somerset, while boats in Portsmouth are smothered with posters for the Unionist candidate

Canvassing for Votes in Derby, 1910
Three images depicting candidates canvassing for votes in Derby during the General Election of 1910. At half-time, the Unionist candidates walk across the ground in the match between Derby County

The General Election- The Perplexed Voter
A perplexed voter scratches his head in confusion as two candidates from opposing political parties canvas for his vote

Testing Candidates for the Post of Milk Sourer at a Cream Cheese Factory. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Political Meeting
Meeting to discuss possible political candidates in a democratic club

Presidential Election
The Judgment of Paris : the people of France make their choice among the presidential candidates. Louis Napoleon is a clear winner

Presidential Butterfly
Candidates in the United States chasing the presidential butterfly in the form of Uncle Sam

Election, Brentford 1847
THE MIDDLESEX ELECTION : the hustings at Brentford - the nomination of candidates - Lord Robert Grosvenor stands as the working mans hero

Satire on Elections
A Cruikshank satire on elections and electoral candidates

Choosing a Chorus Girl - a producer and his assistant assess candidates for their next revue : C B Cochran was the best-known British impresario in this field

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