![A pen sketch of a bizarre political district, shaped like a huge salamander (or dragon), with wings, teeth and clawed feet added on.](https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2024/07/Gerry-Final.jpg)
Gerrymandering: The Origin Story
—This is a guest post by Mark Dimunation, the former chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/07/gerrymandering-the-origin-story/
Note this:
The Library's Rare Book and Special Collections Division holds the original print of the image, and the Geography and Map Division holds Tisdale's original woodblocks — preserving the origins of a political practice that continues over two centuries later.
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