Flashback: 14 Photos Showing How We Used To Vote
14 photos
November, 1940: "Borough head casts ballot--Borough President [John] Cashmore, shown with Mrs. Cashmore, voted at 6 a.m. today at a tailor shop at 225 Reid Ave."
Courtesy of the Brooklyn Public LibraryNew York City, 1867: "Imprisoning alleged illegal voters on election-day in United States Commissioner Davenport's cage, in the new post-office building."
Courtesy of the NYPL<p>New York City, November 4, 1913: Election Day "when John Purroy Mitchel was elected (on a fusion ticket) to succeed Acting Mayor Ardolph Loges Kline."</p>
October 29, 1936âjust before Election Day. "Close-up view of Rhinelander Row, consisting of eleven houses on 7th Avenue between West 12th and 13th Streets. Election posters for John A. Byrnes are visible."
Courtesy of MCNY"Times Square at night, 1944. View of a crowd gathered at Times Square, possibly awaiting the results of an election."
Courtesy of MCNYNew York City, 1925: "Women voting, likely just after women's suffrage was legalized. Poster in the corner reads 'Women vote for president.'"
Courtesy of MCNYElection Night of 1928 looked... interesting.
Courtesy of MCNYNew York City, 1898: "A polling place during an election in 1898; ballot box visible."
Courtesy of MCNY"Calm about it. At Fifty-sixth and Lexington Avenue, the women voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a businesslike way that bespoke study of suffrage."
via"Photo shows Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924), Justice of the Supreme Court of New York who ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic (Tammany) candidate for Mayor of New York City in 1913, probably voting on Nov. 4."
via Library of CongressNew York City, 1864, "A polling-place among the 'upper ten'."
Courtesy of the NYPL"Women voters giving instruction in use of voting machine in lobby of Namm's store. It is assumed that they belong to the League of Women Voters. The image is not dated."
Courtesy of the Brooklyn Public Library