Political Collection (#46)

Isabella II swearing the Constitution
Event held at the Senate where Isabella II of Spain swears the Constitution of 1837 on reaching the age of majority. Date: 1844

Effigy of Charles III and chronology of the Spanish kings (1759)

BALMACEDA, Jos頍anuel (1838-1891). Chilean politician
BALMACEDA, Jos頍 anuel (1838-1891). Chilean politician

French Revolution. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (August 1789). FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

GLADSTONE, William Ewart (1809-1898). British

PEREZ, Antonio (1540-1611). Spanish politician

Pop Art political poster
Unattributed 1960s Pop Art political poster Date: 1960s

Isaac Butt - 2
ISaC BUTT Irish statesman and nationalist leader, Professor of political evconomy in the University of Dublin. Date: 1813 - 1879

Thomas Bumalacarregui
THOMAS BUMALACARREGUI Basque guerilla leader who hoped to take advantage of Spains divided political state to advance the cause of Basque deparatism. Date: CIRCA 1835

Maxim Gorky / Domenica
MAXIM GORKY (1868 - 1936) Russian writer (Born Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov) attending London revolutionary meeting. Date: 1907

Young woman protesting against licensing bill
A bill to licence drinking places meets with vigorous disapproval from a young woman in Kennington Road, London. She is so incensed that she climbs up a lamppost. Date: 1871

Satirical cartoon, Descent of the Great Balloon
Satirical political cartoon, Descent of the Great Balloon, showing ten politicians travelling in a hot-air balloon. Speech bubbles show the mens concerns about the rapid descent of the balloon

Satirical cartoon, A Rising Statesman
Satirical political cartoon, A Rising Statesman. Showing a young politician with an older man in a balloon gondola, waving his hat to an imaginary crowd below

Satirical ballooning cartoon, Lord Grenville
He Steers His Flight. Satirical cartoon on the subject of Lord Grenvilles installation as Chancellor of Oxford University

Free Trade satire
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman caricature as Free Trade store owner with high prices of produce in 1908 Date: 1908

A political game

The political Barbara Frietchie. Illustration shows a troop of senators as Confederate soldiers, led by an officer on horseback labeled Trusts

In the political woods. Illustration shows a figure composed of corn and corn stalks labeled Record Breaking Crops walking through a dark wood at night with a diminutive Uncle Sam

The political Uncle Tommers. Illustration shows a scene aboard a ship carrying cotton, with a man labeled McAdoo, also identified as St

Hoyts A Texas steer a rip roaring comedy of political life. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Hoyts A Texas Steer at the Mason Theatre

On the political ranch. Illustration shows Woodrow Wilson as a cowboy with a rope to lasso a bucking horse labeled Congress, which has thrown lame duck president William H

Hon. Charles Sumner. The great senator and statesman. The champion of civil and political equality. Born January 6th 1811. Died March 11th 1874. Date c1874

The political farce of 1876. Print showing bust portraits of eight men, identified as, clockwise from top, Oliver P. Morton, James A. Garfield, George F. Hoar, William Strong, Joseph P

Hon. Charles Sumner - the great senator and statesman, the champion of civil and political equality - born January 6th 1811, died March 11th 1874

The political vaudeville. Illustration shows the business representative or walking delegate for the Pennsylvania coal miners union doing a song

In the political gallery

Honourable Charles Sumner
Portrait of the Honourable Charles Sumner (1811- 1874). The Great Senator, and Statesman. The Champion of Civil and Political Equality for the Colored Race

Coronation Commissions First Meeting: Mr Attlee
Mr Attlee, at the time, leader of the opposition and a member of the Coronation Committee. 1952

Thames Ironworks demonstration, London
Employees of Thames Ironworks staged a mass demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, in a bid to secure a contract for a warship

Police and strikers during railway strike, Dublin
Police holding strikers back to allow non-union men to pass to Kingsbridge Station (now known as Heuston Station) in Dublin, Ireland. 1911

Lady Terrington
Vera Florence Annie Woodhouse, Lady Terrington (nÚÑáBousher) (1889 1973), British Liberal Party politician, and one of the first women Members of Parliament (MP). Date: 1923

Group of Romanian Jews
A group of Romanian Jews, with a quotation from Prime Minister Carp. Below is an historical note about the persecution of the Jews in Romania in 1866

Suffragettes at Downing Street, London
The scene at Downing Street, London, in 1911 when the Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, consented to receive a deputation of women to discuss womens suffrage. 1911

The General Election, 1924, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and H. H. Asquith the leaders of the competing political parties appear to be playing musical chairs

Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania - District Political Office Date: circa 1910s

Suffragette as a goose
A superb propaganda postcard for Womens Rights, showing a goose in prison plummage, standing atop at bucket and speaking at a meeting of geese

Road sign at Ullitz, Hof-Plauen, Thuringia, Germany
A road sign at Ullitz, Hof-Plauen, Thuringia, Germany, showing the border between East and West Germany, which was changed when the Berlin Wall came down on 12 November 1989. 2010

Police and anti-fascist demonstrators, Central London
Street scene in Central London, showing police (some on foot, some on horseback) with a crowd of anti-fascist demonstrators. The event appears to be fairly peaceful. Date: late 1970s

John Bellingham, assassin of the British Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, in the lobby of the House of Commons on 11th May 1812. Date: 1812

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

Flying women work for the Prime Minister
Miss Delia Crossley, using her aeroplane to promote the interests of the government, and brandishing a poster of Ramsay Macdonald. Date: 1931

Spartacus League Poster
Poster for the Spartakists, Germany 1918 with Karl Liebknech as leading figure. Date: c. 1918

Propaganda posters
Propaganda Posters are produced in Germany during the Great War. Date: 1914-1918

Henry Beaufort Deathbed
HENRY BEAUFORT, bishop of Winchester and cardinal, a worldly political prelate, is exhorted on his deathbed to turn his mind to Higher Things. Date: 1374 - 1447

Buck Balfour. Cartoon of Arthur Balfour (later British Prime Minister) when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland on the cover of Funny Folks

Norway - Sweden caricature

J P Brissot - 4
JACQUES PIERRE BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, French political writer, leader of the Girondist faction for which he was condemned; he fled but was captured and guillotined. Date: 1754 - 1793

Freemasonry and Politics
The day after the coup d etat of 1851, the same members of the Free-Masons, who had applauded the creation of a French Republic, congratulate Prince Napoleon Bonaparte on his ascension to Emperor

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