Impressive early leather-bound autograph album, 7 x 8.25, containing approximately 275 ink signatures of notable late 19th-century American politicians, many of which stem from the 47th United States Congress, highlighted by several noteworthy Civil War officers-turned-politicians. Signatures include: William Rosecrans, Joseph Wheeler, Thomas H. Herndon, William C. Oates, Robert B. Vance, Alexander H. Stephens, Thomas Cornell, J. Warren Keifer, Stephen D. Lindsey, Robert M. A. Hawk, Joshua G. Hall, Henry L. Morey, William W. Rice, Frederick Miles, Robert B. F. Peirce, Jonathan Chace, Samuel H. Miller, Sewall S. Farwell, Rufus R. Dawes, Ira Hazeltine, Jeremiah W. Dwight, Richard W. Townshend, Cyrus D. Prescott, Benjamin Butterworth, William D. Washburn, Leonidas C. Houk, George West, James S. Robinson, Ambrose A. Ranney, John W. Candler, Charles E. Hooker, Sam Rayburn, cartoonist Frank Beard, and many more. The album contains a tipped-in secretarially signed letter from Warren G. Harding. In overall very good condition, with many pages loose and/or taped in.
