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Unidentified Man

George Linen, 1830

Pen and ink drawing of a standing man in a wide hat and frock coat beside a street lamp and waterfront buildings.

John A. Winslow

Pierre Victor Galland, 1861

Watercolor of a man in a top hat and red shirt holding a cigar, standing before a theatre facade beside a playbill.

Francis S. Chanfrau

Francis S. Chanfrau, 1840

Pencil sketch of a woman in a long gown beside a boy holding a hat, with a faint child behind her and a stone column.

Study of 3 figures - woman and 2 children

George Linen, 1830

Pencil sketch of soldiers and onlookers in a street before a two-story building, with a carriage and a caption reading John B

John Brown Brought Out for Execution

Albert Berghaus, 1850

Sepia drawing of a uniformed officer in a tricorn hat raising a sword beside a tree, with soldiers advancing behind him.

Francis Marion

James Barton Longacre, 1830

Sepia drawing of a standing officer in dark uniform beside a horse, a map on a rock, and a cloudy sky.

George Brinton McClellan

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 1850

Full-length watercolor of a young boy in a green coat and yellow waistcoat holding a top hat before a rural landscape.

The Infant Roscius

Augustus Earle, 1810

Ink caricature of an elderly man in plaid with monocle gesturing toward a creature on a cannon, captioned about a lost key no

James Gillespie Blaine

Thomas Nast, 1880

Watercolor portrait of a bald officer in a blue coat with gold epaulettes, resting his hand on a rolled paper.

George Rogers Clark

James Barton Longacre, 1820

Hand-colored drawing of a bearded man in a green coat and wide hat with a walking stick, beside mining cabins and hills.

James Wilson Marshall

Adolph Schwartz, 1850

Pen and ink drawing of two uniformed men with sabers on a harbor quay beside a sailing ship.

James R. Wheeler, Sidney Smith

Pierre Victor Galland, 1860

Sepia portrait of a man in a brown coat and powdered wig holding a walking stick, with a tree and river landscape behind him.

John Dickinson

James Barton Longacre, 1830

Hand-colored print of a man's head on a bird's body with pink breast and long tail, perched on a branch.

Sun Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Engraving of a woman holding a HELP banner over a starving family on a rocky shore, with steamships approaching in the distan

The Herald of Relief from America

Thomas Nast, 1880

Lithograph of a standing naval officer in uniform and bicorne hat on a wooden deck, with steamboats on a river behind him.

Andrew Hull Foote

Andrew Hull Foote, 1860

Comic colour illustration of a man's head on a hen's body beside an egg labelled Natural History, under the title.

The Hen That Hatched This Egg

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Political cartoon of a donkey-headed man with greenback scrolls facing a reclining woman with a star, beside a cornucopia.

A Midsummer-Night's Dream Nomination

Thomas Nast, 1880

Lithograph of a mustached Union officer in uniform beside a grey horse, with soldiers, a flag, and ships behind him.

David Hunter

David Hunter, 1861

Colored lithograph of a standing officer in blue uniform with sword, on an American flag, titled Col. Ellsworth's Funeral Mar

Col. Ellsworth's Funeral March

Thomas S. Sinclair, 1860

Lithograph of a mounted officer on a black horse raising a sabre, with marching soldiers and a bugler behind him.

William H. Lytle

William Haines Lytle, 1861

Engraving of a horse-drawn carriage on a cobbled street with a woman passenger, a coachman, and a bearded man in an apron.

Escape with a Lady, as her Coachman, with Master’s Horse and Carriage

FOY, 1870

Yellow sheet music cover with a black-and-white portrait of a man in a suit within a gold halo design.

Won't You Let Me Build a Nest For You

De Wolf Hopper, 1900

Hand-colored print of the neoclassical Patent Office in Washington, with carriages, a rider and pedestrians on the street.

Patent Office

Edward Sachse & Co, 1850

Wood engraving of an armed confrontation near a farmhouse, with a fallen man in the foreground and a mounted rider at right.

The Christiana Tragedy

John Osler, 1870

Lithograph sheet music cover of Jenny Lind Music showing a woman in a lace tiered gown holding a music folio.

Jenny Lind

Jenny Lind, 1840

Engraving of a bearded man kneeling by a campfire in a forest, with smoke rising, a knife and pan on the ground.

Living in a Cave

Edmund Birckhead Bensell, 1870

Lithographic portrait of Major General S. R. Curtis mounted on a dark horse in military uniform, against a rocky landscape.

Samuel Ryan Curtis

Samuel Ryan Curtis, 1861

Lithograph of a cavalry battle with a rearing riderless horse, a wounded officer on the ground, artillery, and smoke.

The Fall of Major Ringgold

Jonothan Downs, 1840

Engraving of the Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with classical columns, carriages and pedestrians on the street.

United States Patent-Office Department, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Patent Office, 1860