[Presidential] Lincoln, Abraham, et al. Signed Photograph Album

(Washington D.C.), ca. 1864. Oblong 16mo. Album of 59 original carte-de-visite photographs, including President Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and all (but one) Senators from the 38th Congress (lacking William A. Richardson, Illinois). Signed on or below their image, or with cut-signatures mounted (except Lemuel J. Bowden, Virginia). Lincoln's signature excised from another document, and mounted to page below photograph. Manuscript index of photographs at front; Senators arranged by state and labeled thusly in manuscript at top of each page. Brown morroco boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, front board detached, extremities rubbed, remnants of brass clasps; all edges gilt; decorated endpapers; printed presidential calling card dated March 1, 1864 laid-in; Charles Sessler bookseller's description laid-in.

Portraits include: Abraham Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax, William Seward, Salmon Chase, Edwin Stanton, Gideon Welles, John Usher, Montgomery Blair, Edward Bates, William Fessenden, Lot Morill, Daniel Clark, John Hale, Jacob Collamer, Solomon Foot, Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson, Lafayette Sabine Foster, James Dixon, Henry Anthony, William Sprague, James Nye, Edwin Morgan, John Ten Eyck, William Wright, Edgar Cowan, Charles Buckalew, Willard Saulsbury, George Riddle, Reverdy Johnson, Thomas Hicks, John Carlile, Lemuel Bowden, Peter Van Winkle, Waitman Willey, Benjamin Wade, John Sherman, Lyman Trumbull, Henry Lane, Thomas Henricks, Jacob Howard, Zachariah Chandler, James Doolittle, Timothy How, James Harlan, James Grimes, Alexander Ramsay, Morton Wilkinson, James Nesmith, Benjamin Harding, Jim Lane, Samuel Pomeroy, Benjamin Brown, John Henderson, Garrett Davis, Lazarus Powell, James MacDougal, and John Conness.

Charles Sessler, Philadelphia

Collection of Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. (1886-1963), Ardmore, Pennsylvania, American Industrialist and co-founder of the Pew Charitable Trusts, thence by descent in the family

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Darren Winston, Senior Vice President at Freeman’s, has served as Head of Department for Books & Manuscripts, Philadelphia, since 2018. He has been a trustee of the Rosenbach Museum and Library since 2022, is a member of The Manuscript Society, The Bibliographical Society of America, and Philadelphia’s Philobiblon Club.

Raised in northern New Jersey, Darren moved to New York City in 1988 and began his career there as a bookseller in 1995. He spent the next 18 years selling to private clients and at East Coast book fairs. In 2003 he moved with his young family to Sharon, Connecticut where, in 2009, he opened his own bookshop. Darren Winston, Bookseller offered rare and vintage books, prints, fine art, and more, and hosted over 50 book signings and art shows. He was a trustee and, later, Board President, of the Sharon Historical Society, and for six years a trustee of Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, Connecticut.

Darren has hosted the radio program "Darren Winston's Book Report" for NPR-affiliate WHDD since 2009, appeared in the 2014 book-themed documentary The Paper Trail, and in 2024 he joined Antiques Roadshow as a books and manuscripts appraiser. From 1999 to 2005, Darren was the buyer and consultant to the Fine and Rare Books Department at Asprey, the British luxury goods company, at its New York headquarters. While there he spearheaded various in-store events including readings by Salman Rushdie and Dominick Dunne.

In 1993, Darren was hired as a Creative Consultant to Columbia Records, where he assisted in the repackaging of their 12-record Aerosmith back catalogue. He later sold his extensive collection of Aerosmith memorabilia, which he began amassing at the age of 14, directly to the band.

Darren now lives on the Main Line, outside Philadelphia, with his wife, two children, and dog. The family travels frequently to his wife's native England and Scotland. When not bookselling, he plays guitar in Pumped, an Aerosmith tribute band. Darren also appears on the top-rated PBS television program Antiques Roadshow.

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