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Chicago’s Conventions

Album Description

With the Democratic Party’s Presidential Nominating Convention in Chicago, news commentators are revisiting the story and historic consequences of the 1968 Democratic Convention in that city. However with a quick search of the Library of Congress we can see Chicago has been the selected site in for quite a few Republican and Democratic Presidential Nominating Conventions.

This album features a few primary source images of Presidential Nominating Conventions in Chicago, along with some activities that students can participate in as they take a look at Conventions.

First, give your students some background on political nominating conventions and then challenge them to question, research and share what they discover about those as they focus on a primary source.

You might use a few images that you find in the Library of Congress to spark some of that research and discovery process.  Then as you discuss the current Chicago Convention, discuss what is different and what has parallels to the Chicago Convention of this year.

In this album are a few ideas I grabbed by using the search term Chicago Convention.  Please add additional images and your ideas to this album  Presidential Nominating Conventions   Political Science   Government   Republican   Demoncrat   Chicago 

16 to 1 ... the speech that won the nomination ... at the National Democtratic Convention at Chicago, 1896

Teaching Notes

Student Challenge: Write a song or jingle that promotes the sentiment in this  speech, “sing” it to your classmates and explain the meaning.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/93500896/

Reference note

Summary

  • Print shows a bust portrait of William Jennings Bryan and portraits of his family, also illustrations, at the bottom, of a farmer and a blacksmith; includes the complete text of the "Cross of Gold", the speech that helped Bryan win the Democratic Party nomination for president, with 16 large silver dollars and one small gold dollar framing the speech at the top right and left corners.

Created / Published

  • Chicago : The Henderson Lith. Co., c1896 Oct. 1.

Genre

  • Political posters--American--1890-1900
  • Lithographs--Color--1890-1900

Notes

  • -  B54362 U.S. Copyright Office.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Copyrighted by Peter Tracy, Memphis on the Mississippi.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Digital Id

  • pga 03796 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.03796
  • cph 3g02112 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g02112
  • cph 3a09826 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a09826

Convention number / Frank A. Nankivell.

Teaching Notes

Student Challenge:

Create a political cartoon that represents the Democratic or Republican Conventions of 2024 based on the style of this illustration. 

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2011647314/

Reference note

Summary

  • Illustration shows a stork with the face of Theodore Roosevelt delivering William H. Taft, bundled as an infant, to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Created / Published

  • N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1908 June 10.

Genre

  • Periodical illustrations--1900-1910
  • Magazine covers--1900-1910
  • Cartoons (Commentary)--1900-1910
  • Offset photomechanical prints--Color--1900-1910

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Illus. in: Puck, v. 63, no. 1632 (1908 June 10), cover.
  • -  Copyright 1908 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 26278 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26278

Republican [National] Convention, [Chicago, Illinois,] 1920.

Teaching Notes

Student Challenge:

Create a podcast that focuses on demonstrations at the political conventions highlighting the 1920 Republican convention.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000260/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [1920 June 8-12]

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Title derived from Library of Congress staff.
  • -  Summary: Photograph of six suffragists at the 1920 Republican National Convention in Chicago, gathered in front of a building with suffrage banners. Mrs. James Rector, Mary Dubrow, and Alice Paul (left to right) hold center banner that reads: "No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex. Susan B. Anthony, 1872."

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

[Illinois delegates at the Democratic National Convention of 1968, react to Senator Ribicoff's nominating speech in which he criticized the tactics of the Chicago police against anti-Vietnam war protesters]

Teaching Notes

Student Challenge:

Tell the story via a creative slide presentation of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2012647950/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1968 Aug. 28.

Genre

  • Film negatives--1960-1970

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Contact sheet folder caption: "Democratic Nat'l Conv. 3rd sessions, after recess...Frames 31a-33a - Ill. delegates reaction to Sen. Ribicoff's nominating speech; Mayor Daley of Chicago in Frame 33. WLK, 8-28-68."
  • -  U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
  • -  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 19756, frame 31A.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • ds 02133 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.02133

[Vice President Richard M. Nixon, his wife Pat Nixon and children Tricia and Julie, riding in an open automobile as they arrive at the Republican National Convention, Chicago, Illinois] / WKL.

Teaching Notes

Student Challenge:

Create a newsreel or telecast using images from the library of Congress that highlight this convention.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023631340/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 07/25/1960 [25 July 1960]

Genre

  • Film negatives--1960

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 4700-H, 24.
  • -  Related log book caption from USN&WR COLL - Job no. 4700H: "Republican National Convention 07/25/1960 WKL."
  • -  Related contact sheet folder caption from USN&WR COLL - Job no. 4700H: "Vice President R. Nixon & family arrive in Chicago for convention WKL July 25, 1960."
  • -  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Digital Id

Democratic National Convention, July 1952, Chicago [Swing to Ewing acrobat act]

Teaching Notes

Student Challenge:

Investigate what types of sign, pins, buttons and slogans are used to persuade delegates at Conventions.  Design a unique sign or slogan for the 2024 political conventions.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017651780/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1952 July.

Genre

  • Film negatives--1950-1960

Notes

  • -  Title and date from log book.
  • -  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 52, frame 52.
  • -  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 51660 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51660

Roosevelt speaking in convention hall, Chicago

Teaching Notes

Student challenge:

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2014691372/

Reference note

Summary

  • Photo shows Theodore Roosevelt at what appears to be the first Progressive Party Convention. They met in August 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, and nominated him to run for president. (Source: Library staff)

Created / Published

  • [1912 August]

Genre

  • Glass negatives

Notes

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Digital Id

  • ggbain 11285 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11285