- The Jeffersonian, front page.
Saturday April, 1863, The Jeffersonian; a 19th century newspaper published in Danbury, CT. This edition calls on the public to vote in the upcoming election, with information about local meetings, and first-hand accounts published in the form of private letters, discussing living conditions in the South.
Danbury Women’s Voter Ledger, here.
Mrs. Emma Heath was the first woman in Danbury to be registered to vote on August 19, 1893; this ledger dictates the process that Mrs. Heath took to become a registered voter, and then goes on to list all women who were registered to vote in the Danbury area in 1893-1894. Additionally on August 19, 1893, Emma Heath was followed immediately by Achsah Dauchy Kerrigan and Susan Street, making them the first three women to register in Danbury on the same day.
Save Your Ballot- Republican.
The significance of fears indicating a Democratic attempt to trick voters to incorrectly mark election ballots were reflected in Republican voting ephemera, highlighted here in this advertisement from The Danbury Evening News on November 2, 1920.
- 1976 State Representative Advertisements- Jim Dyer.
James Dyer was an American politician who served as the Democratic Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut, from 1979 to 1987, and previously represented the city’s 110th district in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1977 to 1979. This is one of 5 30-second ads from Dyer’s 1976 state rep campaign in the collection.
Democratic socialists from the late 1980s, here.
This is a pamphlet published in 1987 in support of the Democratic Socialists of America, written by Ronald Dellums (former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing California’s 9th congressional district from 1971 to 1998, and former Mayor of Oakland from 2007 to 2011) and Frances Moore Lappé (author, researcher and activist, Co-Director for the Institute of Food and Development Policy).