COLLECTION GUIDES

ca. 1880-1979

Guide to the Photograph Collection


Collection Summary

Abstract

This collection includes photographs of U.S. senator and diplomat Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. The collection also contains portraits of various Lodge family members, including his wife Emily Sears Lodge, and other political figures; photographs of Emily Sears Lodge's charity work in Vietnam; and photos of manuscripts. Photographers include Lodge's publicist, Vincent O'Brien, and various photographers for Life magazine and other news services, among many others.

Biographical Sketch

Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985) was a U.S. senator and diplomat, the son of poet George Cabot Lodge (1873-1909) and Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis (d. 1960), as well as the grandson of U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924). He graduated from Harvard in 1924 and worked as a journalist until 1932. In 1926, Lodge married Emily Sears (b. 1905), and the couple had two sons: George Cabot Lodge (b. 1927) and Henry Sears Lodge (b. 1930). The Lodge family made their home in Beverly, Mass.

Lodge began his political career in 1932 with his election as a Republican state representative in Massachusetts. He was re-elected in 1934 and was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate in 1936. Through much of his early political career, Lodge also participated actively in military maneuvers and training, and in 1942, he took a temporary leave of absence from the Senate to serve in World War II with American tank units in Libya. He was re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 1942, but resigned in 1944 to serve with the U.S. Army in Europe. After his war service, Lodge was elected once again to the Senate in 1946. In 1952, he managed Dwight D. Eisenhower's successful presidential campaign but lost his own re-election to the Senate to John F. Kennedy.

In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Lodge ambassador to the United Nations. He served in that position until 1960, when he joined Richard Nixon's presidential campaign as his running mate for vice president. The pair lost to the Kennedy/Johnson ticket, and Lodge briefly retired from politics to serve as the Director General of the Atlantic Institute. In 1963, however, President Kennedy appointed Lodge ambassador to Vietnam, a position he kept until his resignation in 1964, in part due to Emily Sears Lodge's ill health. In 1965, President Johnson asked Lodge to return to Vietnam as ambassador, and he did so, serving in that position until 1967, after which he served as ambassador to Germany in 1968-1969. In 1969, Lodge headed the U.S. delegation to the unsuccessful Paris Peace Talks with Vietnam. From 1969 to 1977, he served occasionally as an envoy to the Vatican for Presidents Nixon and Ford.

Henry Cabot Lodge's siblings were actor and politician John Davis Lodge (1903-1985) and Helena Lodge (b. 1905), who married Edouard de Streel.

Collection Description

This collection contains 591 loose photographs in 5 boxes and 2 oversize boxes. Most of these photographs were collected by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and his wife, Emily Sears Lodge; they span the years ca. 1880-1979.

The collection contains portrait photographs of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Emily Sears Lodge, and other members of the Lodge family, as well as various friends and dignitaries including several U.S. presidents. There are also a number of photographs of Lodge's military service during World War II, his time as United States ambassador to the United Nations and later to Vietnam, and various other events. Also included are travel photographs, photographs of manuscripts, and a series of photographs taken or manipulated by Lodge's publicist, Vincent O'Brien.

Most of these photographs were taken by various news and magazine services, including Acme Photo, World Wide Photo, United Press Photo, International News Photo, JUSPAO Press Section, and various photographers for Life magazine. Other photographers include Harris and Ewing (Washington, D.C.), Underwood and Underwood (Washington, D.C.), and Gilbert Studios (Philadelphia, Penn. and Washington, D.C.), among others.

Acquisition Information

The Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. photographs II were removed from the Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers II (Ms. N-166 and OFFSITE), a bequest by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1985.

Detailed Description of the Collection

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I. Portraits, ca. 1880-1979

This series contains portraits of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Emily Sears Lodge, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), and other members of the Lodge family, as well as other family, friends, and political figures. The series is divided into two subseries: (A) Individual portraits; and (B) Group portraits.

Close I. Portraits, ca. 1880-1979

IV. Vietnam photographs, ca. 1963-1967

This series contains photographs of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Emily Sears Lodge, and others during Lodge's tenure as United States ambassador to Vietnam. The series is divided into two subseries: (A) Henry Cabot Lodge photographs; and (B) Emily Series Lodge photographs.

Close IV. Vietnam photographs, ca. 1963-1967

X. Oversize photographs, ca. 1898-1979

This series contains oversized photographs ranging in date between ca. 1898-1979. The photographs are arranged into two subseries: (A) Portraits and (B) Other oversized photographs.

Close X. Oversize photographs, ca. 1898-1979

Preferred Citation

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. photographs II, Photo. Coll. 185, Massachusetts Historical Society Photo Archives.

Access Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.

Persons:

Lodge, Emily Sears, 1905- --Photographs.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-1985--Photographs.
Lodge family--Photographs.
O'Brien, Vincent, photographer.

Organizations:

United States. Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations--Photographs.

Subjects:

Diplomats--Vietnam--Photographs.
Diplomats' spouses--Vietnam--Photographs.
Egypt--20th century--Photographs.
Legislators--United States--Photographs.
Portrait photographs.
Russia--20th century--Photographs.
Soldiers--Photographs.
Vietnam--20th century--Photographs.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Photographs.
Voyages and travels--20th century--Photographs.
Women--Portraits--Photographs.
World War, 1939-1945--Photographs.

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