COLLECTION GUIDES

ca. 1860-1985; bulk: 1925-1970

Guide to the Photograph Collection


Collection Summary

Abstract

This collection contains photographs of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., author, reporter, United States senator, and ambassador, and includes loose photographs, scrapbooks, and photograph albums that depict his political career and family life.

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

The Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. photograph collection contains 4,230 photographs in 13 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 39 volumes collected by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and his wife Emily Sears Lodge. These photographs span the years ca. 1860-1985, most dating from 1925-1970, and consist of loose photos and photographs arranged in volumes.

Most of the photographs in this collection depict Lodge's life and work from his early career as a reporter to his retirement from politics in the 1970s. Both the loose photographs and the photographs in volumes depict his activities during his terms as Massachusetts state and U.S. senator; his military service and training during the 1940s, including his involvement in World War II; his own political campaigns from 1932-1960, as well as his work for the Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign in 1952; his services as United States ambassador to the United Nations and also as United States ambassador to Vietnam and Germany; and his various public appearances, award ceremonies, and speaking engagements unrelated to government business. Most of these photographs were taken by various news and/or government photographers and were collected by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and Emily Sears Lodge over the course of his lifetime.

In addition, the loose photographs in this collection also contain many formal and informal portraits of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. as both a child and an adult, as well as various Lodge family members and friends and Lodge's political colleagues. There are also a number of views of places of importance to Lodge's life and photographs of his travels to Labrador in 1920, around the world with Emily Sears Lodge in 1928-1929, and to Africa with Emily in 1961.

Photographers represented in this collection include Leo Rosenthal of New York, N.Y., various photographers for Life magazine and other news organizations, the United Nations, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and many others. Many of the photographers are unidentified.

This collection contains black-and-white and color photographs, as well as some film negatives.

Acquisition Information

The Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. photographs were removed from the Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers, a gift from Lodge to the Massachusetts Historical Society in Feb. 1978.

Detailed Description of the Collection

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I. Loose photographs

This series contains loose photographs not collected in photograph albums and is divided into 12 sections: Portraits; Views; Travel photographs; Military service; Campaign photographs; Senate photographs; United Nations photographs; Vietnam photographs; Germany photographs; Television appearances; Speaking engagements, awards, and events; and Miscellaneous.

Close I. Loose photographs

II. Oversize loose photographs

This series contains oversize loose photographs not collected in photograph albums and is divided into two sections: Oversize portraits and Other oversize photographs.

Close II. Oversize loose photographs

III. Photograph albums

Arranged chronologically.

Vols. 1-6, 8-16, 18-28, 31-32, and 36-38 were disbound in Dec. 2004 due to preservation concerns; the album pages are stored in boxes in the order in which they originally appeared in the albums. Some of these volumes are Oversize. Many of the photographs in these volumes are duplicates of loose photographs also found in this collection.

Close III. Photograph albums

Preferred Citation

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. photographs, Photo. Coll. 184, 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- , photographer.
Lodge, Emily Sears, 1905- --Photographs.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-1985, photographer.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-1985--Photographs.
Lodge family--Photographs.
Rosenthal, Leo, photographer.

Organizations:

United States. Army. Signal Corps, photographers.
United States. Congress. Senate--Photographs.
United States. Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations, photographers.
United States. Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations--Photographs.

Subjects:

Concentration camps--Germany--Dachau--Photographs.
Diplomats--United States--Photographs.
Elections--United States--Photographs.
Film negatives.
Germany--Politics and government--Photographs.
Massachusetts--Politics and government--Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Political campaigns--United States--Photographs.
Politicians--Massachusetts--Photographs.
Portrait photographs.
Presidents--United States--Election--1952--Photographs.
Presidents--United States--Election--1960--Photographs.
Soldiers--Massachusetts--Photographs.
United States--Politics and government--Photographs.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Photographs.
Vietnam--Politics and government--Photographs.
Voyages and travels--Photographs.
World War, 1939-1945--Photographs.

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