This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot

232 Pages·2020·54.879 MB·English

by  Alicia Yin Cheng

To my mother,
who showed me joy,
and to my daughter,
who gives me hope.
Published by
Princeton Architectural Press
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© 2020 Alicia Yin Cheng
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Editor: Sara Stemen
Design: MGMT. design
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN: 978-1-61689-887-8
ISBN: 978-1-61689-931-8 (epub, mobi)
Library of Congress control number: 2019951971
FRONT COVER: Regular Republican Ticket, Massachusetts, 1878. American Antiquarian Society.
BACK COVER: Regular Citizens Independent Ticket, California, ca. late 1890s. California Historical Society.
CONTENTS
THE PHYSICAL DIMENSION OF DEMOCRACY
Julian E. Zelizer
7
THE MOST FUGITIVE EPHEMERA
Alicia Yin Cheng
11
PLATES
33
NEW ANXIETIES AND OLD FRIENDS
Victoria Bassetti
165
NOTES
172
IMAGE CREDITS
174
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
175
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
176