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Election Time!

by Hannah Parris on November 3, 2014

Men identified as Rocky Mountain News staff members stand in a row in front of tables that hold election tabulating machines inside the Rocky Mountain News building at 1720 Welton Street in Denver, Colorado. Some men work the machines, others study tapes with results from the machines.

View of a woman, a ward worker, in a dark dress and hat, talking to a woman who holds a baby and stands with a young girl. Well dressed men and women sit and stand on the porch of a building with signs that reads: "Polling Place, Ward and District 9, Precinct 1" and "Election Notice." The women wear long dresses and hats. The men wear suits and hats.

Colorado Governor Daniel Thornton stands and talks to two Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad employees near a railroad freight car in probably Denver, Colorado. He wears a suit, tie and a cowboy hat. The railroad employees wear overhauls and railroad caps. Members of the governor's staff are nearby.

Governor Thornton campaigning

Colorado Governor Daniel Thornton kneels near a wastepaper basket on the floor of his office in the state capitol building in Denver, Colorado. He wears coveralls over his suit and lifts the edge of a mat. The floor is littered with paper and he holds a piece in his hand. He wears a cowboy hat and boots. Women and a man look on and laugh. A sign on the wall reads: "Governor Thornton Swept Here."

Suffragettes march in New York City with sandwich board signs that read: "Votes For Women", Women Vote In These States", "Come And Learn The Truth About Women Who Vote", and "Saturday Sep. 16th At Cooper Union At 8 PM."

Interior view shows Governor Clarence J. Morely as he casts his vote at a polling place in Denver, Colorado. Shows a ballot box and polling officials. Governor Morely was associated with the Ku Klux Klan during his term from 1925 to 1927.

United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaks from a podium in Denver, Colorado. The Colorado State Capitol portico and dome are in the background.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt leans out of his touring car, during his campaign visit to Denver in 1936, to talk with a supporter. Four other men stand nearby.

Boys and girls pass ballots and wait in line at East High School in Denver, Colorado. Sign reads: "Juniors Vote Here."

Walter Johnson, candidate for governor of Colorado sits in an open antique touring car with an unidentified man and boy on the corner of Fourteenth Avenue and Bannock Street in Denver, Colorado. Signs on the automobile read: "Walter Johnson for Governer [sic]." and "To Guarantee Labor's Rights Vote in the Primary Sept. 12. The Denver Public Library (Carnegie) is in the distance.

Denver Mayor Benjamin Franklin Stapleton (1873-1950) poses (eyeglasses and spotted tie), with a crowd of men and women, in Denver, Colorado; bunting is on the wall.

View of the site for the Hadley Branch of the Denver Public Library, at South Grove Street and West Jewell Avenue in the Mar Lee neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Billboard reads: "Vote Yes Sept 26 Let's Build It, Denver Public Library Expansion Program."

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