Massachusetts Senate photograph album, 1879.

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Massachusetts Senate photograph album, 1879.

Album of 52 cabinet card portraits of members of the 1879 Massachusetts Senate. None of the subjects are identified. The photographs appear to have been all taken by the same unidentified photographer.

52 photographs in 1 album.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7657308

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts. General Court. Senate

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The upper house of the General Court consisted in the colonial period (1629-1686) of assistants sitting with the governor and deputy governor and originally called the Court of Assistants--though in 1634 the court's legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole and by 1644 that term was reserved for the assistants serving solely in their judicial capacity only; during the intercharter period under a revival of colonial government (1689-1692) and in the provincial and...