(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.