Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and President of the Massachusetts Senate. He was also the 48th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, before becoming Vice President to Warren G. Harding. On August 2, 1923, President Harding died of a sudden heart attack, making Coolidge the 30th President of the United States.
The new photographs being added to the catalog are portraits of Coolidge and his family.
 |
| This one is of him and his wife, Grace. |
 |
| This one is of him and his entire family, including his sons John and Calvin Jr. |
 |
| This one is of the Coolidge children, along with, who we presume, is their grandfather Colonel John C. Coolidge and Captain I. Goodhue. |
 |
| This photograph, from the same series, is of Coolidge alone, maybe for a gubernatorial or presidential portrait. |
There are many other photographs of Calvin Coolidge in the State Library’s collections, some are available to see digitally through Digital Commonwealth and can be accessed through our online catalog. The Digital Commonwealth is an online resource started from a grant by the Massachusetts Board of Library Trustees to connect Massachusetts libraries and their patrons with digital content from all over the Commonwealth and provides free online access to thousands of images, documents, and sound recordings.
The Special Collections Department also has many collections of ephemera about Coolidge-- one being a scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning Calvin and Grace Coolidge. You can find it in our online catalog here and please feel free to visit our Special Collections Department in Room 55 to look at it.
The State Library will also be featuring Calvin Coolidge in our fall exhibit, so keep an eye out in this blog for more details!
Katherine Davis
Reference Technician
