Portrait photographs of Senate presidents and House speakers, 1898-1939.

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

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Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. Adams was b...

Massachusetts Art Commission

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The Massachusetts Art Commission (named by statute the Art Commission for the Commonwealth) consists of five gubernatorial appointees serving five-year terms. Established by St 1910, c 422, it was placed in the governor's department by St 1919, c 350, s 16. As currently defined in MGLA c 60, s 20, its responsibilities include advisory approval relating to plans for creation, acquisition, construction, erection, or remodeling by the Commonwealth of any work of art; or to the artistic character of...

Notman Photographic Co. (Boston, Mass.),

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Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...

Richardson Bros.,

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Massachusetts. General Court. Sergeant-at-Arms.

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Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives

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Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from an equal number of single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms. From the description of House of Representatives, Order, Massachusetts, 1776 January 22. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 189065354 From the gu...

Chickering, Elmer

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Alize Espiridiona Cenda del Castillo was a 26 inch-tall dwarf, who was born in 1869 either in Cuba or Mexico, and died in 1928, 1939 or 1945 (sources disagree). She was a vaudeville artist who traveled in side or freak shows across the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was also known as "Chiquita", "The living doll", "The Cuban atom," "Mrs. Anthony C. Woeckner," and "Alice Zenda." She first came to the United States with Frank Charles Bostock (1866-1912), the anima...

Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950

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Frank H. Nowell (1864-1950) was a photographer who worked in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. He was the official photographer of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. From the description of Frank H. Nowell photographs of the Northwest and Alaska, circa 1880s-1920s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 179780507 Frank H. Nowell (1864-1950) was born on 19 February in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father, Thomas Nowell, spent part of each year in Alaska for b...

Marceau, Theodore C.,

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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...

Van Norman, George H.,

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Fairchild, Charlotte (American photographer, active ca. 1920-ca. 1940)

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Wescott, Robert F.

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Holt, Charles

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Epithet: of Aston, near Birmingham Title: 3rd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x0002e0 ...

Zimmermann, F. Ernst.,

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Oppenheim, Julius M.,

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Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

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Epithet: president of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00001d Calvin Coolidge's son John married John Trumbull's daughter Florence. From the description of Letter, 1931 March 16, Northampton, Mass., to John H. Trumbull, Plainville, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 25622017 For information on Pres. Coolidge, see an encyclopedia. No information is...