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Congressional Directory for the Third Session of the Forty-First Congress of the United States of America bound with Congressional Directory for the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress bound with Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress. Compiled for the Use of Congress

187160912Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1871. Each directory a second edition. 8vo. 3 volumes: 128 116; 81 pp. Extra illustrated with 16 original mounted photographs six portraits and 10 architectural images of Washington buildings all about 6 x 4 inches including three signed photographs of President Ulysses S. Grant Vice-President Schuyler Colfax and Speaker of the House James G. Blaine in the 1871 directory all three were serving in office at the time other mounted photographs of Presidents Andrew Johnson 1869 directory and Abraham Lincoln 1867 directory; the 1864 Anthony Berger image taken at the Brady Studio in 1864 plate of the U.S. Capitol from a wood engraving folding map of Washington D.C. Photographs of the buildings include the White House Patent Office Post Office Treasury Department War Department Navy Department Agriculture Department the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution Castle. The sixth portrait photograph is of Addison H. Laflin 1823-1878 U.S. Representative from New York 1865-1871; this is his daughter Grace Laflin's copy gilt-stamped on the upper board "Grace Laflin / From Her Father / March 4 1871." Repaired scrape on rear board small tear in lower edge of one leaf but an impressive extra-illustrated volume in an attractive presentation binding. Contemporary presentation binding: red morocco professional restoration to rear joint gilt gilt rules framing the boards enclosing an intricate ornamental rule pattern gilt title and ornaments between raised bands on spine gilt turn-ins all edges gilt. 9763. Benjamin Perley Poore was a newspaperman and clerk of the committee of the U.S. Senate on printing records where he began editing the Congressional Directory in 1867. He later served as editor of the "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress" and as a well-connected member of the Washington political scene compiled his "Reminiscences of Sixty years in the National Metropolis" Philadelphia 1886. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books