1873 Massachusetts State Senate

Desirable period photograph album, featuring gold-guilded edges and details, as well as still-functioning metal clasps. Including in the album are an original menu from an official Senate dinner at Boston's historic Parker House, and a roll call identifying the Senators in the album.

Boasting fifty-one original Carte-de-visite photographs of the 1873 Massachusetts State Senate, this album includes the following senators: George Bailey Loring, Martin Griffin, Isaac Henry Coe, Charles Pickett Stickney, Samuel Moulton Griggs, Rufus Dodd Woods, Joseph Samson Potter, Robert Johnson, Timothy Fairbanks Packard, Levi Wallace, Robert Oliver Fuller, Lloyd Parsons, Joseph Kelley Baker, George Walter Lobdell, Francis Wayland Jacobs, George Arnold Torrey, Newell Giles, Erastus Payson Carpenter, Charles Howe French, Carroll Davidson Wright, Nathan Williams Harmon, William H. Learned Jr., N. L. Johnson, G.T. Thompson, Edward Lawrence, Edward Learned, Jeremiah Clark, James Brown, Jedediah Dwelley, Moody Merrill, Francis Augustus Nye, Henry Stevenson Washburn, Newton Morse, Prentiss Chaffee Baird, G.K. Bannister, Henry Lewis Bancroft, John Douglas Todd, William Whiting, George Danforth Whittle, Stephen Nye Gifford, Edward Abbott (Senate Chaplain), John Morissey (Sergeant-at-Arms), Henry O. Read (Doorkeeper), Stillman W. Edgell (Doorkeeper), L.M. Hayden (Messenger), Hira W. Bates (Messenger), Charles W. Philbrick (Senate Page), and Dr. George H. Gould..

Measuring approximately 2.5 x 6 x 7.25, this photograph album has expected light overall aging, including minor wear to covers and spine.