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Album, Cabinet Card Portraits


Title Album, Cabinet Card Portraits
Artist/Maker Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries
Date 1870-1871 ca.
Medium Leather, Paper
Dimensions h. 10.5 x w. 13.5 x d. 2 in. (h. 26.7 x w. 34.3 x d. 5.1 cm)
Credit Line U.S. Senate Collection
Accession Number 11.00061.000


  • Object Description
  • This embossed leather album with brass clasps, contains 80 cabinet card photographs from the Washington, D.C., studio of famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. The photographs are arranged alphabetically and depict nearly all of the senators serving in the 41st Congress (1869-1870) including: Hannibal Hamlin, Charles Sumner, Hiram Revels, and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. Seventy-three senators autographed the pages containing their portrait.

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