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Sources Exhausted

Aaron Rudkin edited this page Aug 13, 2018 · 35 revisions

National Sources:

  • Congressional Pictorial Directory
  • "Autobiographies and portraits of the President, cabinet, Supreme court, and Fifty-fifth Congress"
  • "The United States Red Book" (54th congress)
  • "Public men of to-day; being biographies of the President and Vice-president of the United States, each member of the Cabinet, the United States senators and the members of the House of representatives of the Forty-seventh Congress, the chief justice and the justices of the Supreme court of the United States, and of the governors of the several states" (47th Congress)
  • "McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress." -- photo of Caruthers missing online, get paper copy?
  • "Who's Who in the Pacific Southwest"

State Registers / Blue Books / Statewide resources (these are generally useful for 1900+ around when photos became routine in them):

  • Alabama Official and Statistical Register
  • Arkansas Historical Report of the Secretary of State
  • Connecticut State Register
  • Georgia Official Register
  • Illinois Blue Book
  • Biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of the representative men of the United States (Illinois)
  • Iowa Red Book
  • Massachusetts Manual for the General Court
  • Michigan Blue Book
  • Minnesota Blue Book (Legislative Manual)
  • Missouri Blue Book
  • New York Red Book
  • North Carolina manual
  • Pennsylvania State Legislature and State Senate
  • Nebraska Blue Book
  • Representing Texas book
  • West Virginia Blue Book
  • Wisconsin Blue Book
  • "The Columbian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of the representative men of the United States : Wisconsin volume"

Not exhausted:

  • Pennsylvania Manual (mostly under copyright, somehow?)

Completed States:

  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • New Mexico
  • North Dakota
  • Oklahoma
  • South Dakota
  • Utah
  • Washington
  • Wyoming
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