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Title: “Wearin’ pants and boots and smokin’ pipes and runnin’ for President!”
Creator: Frank Miller
Collection: Iowa Women’s Archives Founders Digital Collection

I love this image, and talk about timely. Before Barack and Hillary there was Shirley Chisholm. In 1972, Chisholm ran for President of the United States under perhaps the best campaign slogan of all times, “Unbought and Unbossed.” She had already blazed ground in 1968, becoming the first African American woman elected to Congress. Cartoonist Frank Miller signed this artwork, “To Louise Noun [co-founder of the Iowa Women’s Archives at University of Iowa] who I would vote for if she ran for congress, maybe.”

–Nicole Saylor
Head, Digital Library Services