From This Is What Democracy Looked Like, which will be published in June by Princeton Architectural Press. The book is an illustrated history of the paper ballots used in U.S. elections dating back to the nineteenth century.

The Republican ticket from Connecticut for the 1884 general election. Courtesy the Division of Political and Military History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution A list of Democratic nominees, 1880, California. Courtesy the California Historical Society A ticket from the 1876 election in the city of Boston. The Liberal Democratic ticket argues that a “law that deprives the citizen of his whiskey,…