Title: House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1881
Description: Volume contains "62 Albertype plates with 245 photographic portraits. Such portrait albums were traditionally produced with albumen prints---this is the only photomechanical one of a state legislature that has come to light. There do exist a few college albums such as this, and there are two large books with portraits of legislators in new York and Massachusetts."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 79.
Subjects: Portraits, Portrait photography, Legislators, Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives, Massachusetts
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century