Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MASSACHUSETTS.) House of Representatives, Massachusetts. 23 mounted albumen photographs in each volume. 2 volumes. Oblong 4to, 1/2 morocco, worn at extremities; 2 leaves detached in 1872 volume, scattered pencil annotations on photographs; signatures of George H. Hoyt on front flyleaves. [Boston], 1872-73
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Each volume consists entirely of composite portraits of the hundreds of members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, twelve men per page, each captioned with their name and home town. Among the notables in the 1873 volume is Lewis Hayden of Boston, a former slave who served a term in the legislature.
The former owner of these volumes, George H. Hoyt (1837-1877) of Athol, MA, had gone to Virginia to serve as one of John Brown's defense attorneys in 1860, and was then attorney general of Kansas before returning to serve in the Massachusetts legislature. His portrait appears in each volume.