Cast Your Ballot


[IMAGE: Election workers with I-Like-Ike buttons.]

Workers at the polls try to persuade a voter on Election Day 1952.

[IMAGE: Police and citizens stand at the corner of a cobblestone street.]

Election Day in 1903, at the corner of Fenchurch and East Main Streets.

[IMAGE: Voters hoist candidate over the crowd.]

Colgate Darden gets "carried away" by well-wishers following his successful bid for Congress in 1938.

[IMAGE: Richard Nixon at the podium.]

Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon campaigns in Norfolk in 1952 on behalf of the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket.

[IMAGE: Six poll workers and a police officer huddle around an electric heater.]

Dedicated pollsters bundle up on a cold day during a Democratic Primary. c1950

[IMAGE: Hundreds of voters line up to vote.]

They're lined up around the block at Granby High School to vote in the Presidential Election of 1952 (Dwight D. Eisenhower vs. Adlai E. Stevenson).

[IMAGE: Ten members of the Democratic Strategy meeting]

Local Democratic leaders gather for a planning session during the Eisenhower-Stevenson Race of 1952.

[IMAGE: Four children carry homemade signs requesting a fourth term for Roosevelt.]

Young Democrats campaign for FDR in the summer of 1944.

[IMAGE: Voters line up at a polling place. ]

A beautiful Autumn day, 3 November 1936, as voters queue up to cast their ballots --- in a garage?

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