Commemorative album for Samuel M. Purdy, member of the New York State Assembly 1867-68. Half leather album (some stronger moisture stains, especially on back cover, edges/corners rubbed) with owner's name Samuel M. Purdy gilt-stamped on the cover. With 140 mounted CDV-sized portraits, three larger portraits in oval (19 x 13.3 cm) from ca. 1867, a lithograph of Grover Cleveland and 2 unknown late portraits 1880s. With ca. 133 signatures in ink on the album pages below the images.
