Black leatherbound autograph album belonging to H. C. Underwood, 8.25 x 10.25, containing over 500 signatures (mostly of friends and acquaintances), including over fifty Reconstruction-era politicians, including: President U. S. Grant; Vice President Schuyler Colfax; cabinet members Hamilton Fish, George S. Boutwell, William Belknap, George M. Robeson, Columbus Delano, John A. J. Creswell, and Amos T. Akerman; and about thirty Congressmen including Senators Adelbert Ames, Charles Sumner, John Sherman, Henry Wilson, Simon Cameron, Lyman Trumbull, John A. Logan, and Frederick T. Frelinghuysen. A number of states’ governors have also signed, many applying their state seal; among these are John F. Hartranft, Charles B. Anderson, Arthur C. Mellette, Benjamin F. Prescott, William Claflin, John M. Palmer, C. C. Carpenter, William Alanson Howard, and others. A couple other notable names are Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Charles Dudley Warner. In overall very good to fine condition, with wear to the covers and the upper third of the spine missing; interior pages are fine and remain bound and intact.
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