{"id":6390,"date":"2026-04-16T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/?page_id=6390"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:23:38","slug":"voting-booths-on-sanborn-maps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/features\/voting-booths-on-sanborn-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting booths on Sanborn maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/voting-booth-1933-Sanborn-map-unpaved-8th-street.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/voting-booth-1933-Sanborn-map-unpaved-8th-street.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/voting-booth-1933-Sanborn-map-unpaved-8th-street.jpg 709w, https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/voting-booth-1933-Sanborn-map-unpaved-8th-street-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A voting booth facing 8th Street on the 1933 Sanborn insurance maps of Racine, Wis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cara Bradshaw noticed a small booth in Dennis Tully&#8217;s photo of Bradley Grocers and I remembered that I had seen an odd little &#8220;voting booth&#8221; marked on a Sanborn map \u2026 and I found it. These voting booths seem to be from a time where people voted ward by ward, and some wards did not have a public building for voting booths.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cara Bradshaw noticed a small booth in Dennis Tully&#8217;s photo of Bradley Grocers and I remembered that I had seen an odd little &#8220;voting booth&#8221; marked on a Sanborn map \u2026 and I found it. These voting booths seem to be from a time where people voted ward by ward, and some wards did not&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6390","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6390\/revisions\/6394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}