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Colored allegorical print with a central legislative chamber scene, Lincoln and Sumner statues, soldiers, and a plantation vi

The Shackle Broken by the Genius of Freedom

Edward Sachse & Co, 1870

Engraved newspaper page showing a crowd entering a stone fortress gate guarded by soldiers, with smaller scenes around it.

Stampede Among the Negroes in Virginia

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1861

Lithograph group portrait of six men in formal suits, labeled as the first Black senator and representatives in Congress.

First Colored Senator and Representatives

Hiram Rhoades Revels, 1870

Printed advertisement with decorative border announcing Brady's National Gallery of Daguerreotypes on Broadway, New York.

Brady's National Gallery of Daguerreotypes

Mathew B. Brady, 1840

Japanese woodblock triptych of a festival procession with floats, lanterns, parasols, and uniformed men beside a pavilion.

Ulysses S. and Julia B.D. Grant

Hiroshige III, 1861

Wood engraving of eight children and adults in a row before a window, titled Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored.

Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored

Myron H. Kimball, 1860

Engraved political cartoon of a Republican elephant tugging a plank that tips two men off a cliff toward the Capitol dome.

The "Third Term" Trap

Thomas Nast, 1861

Hand-colored print of a bearded man in blue uniform with a seated woman, children, and a girl at a piano in a parlor.

General Grant and His Family

A. L. Weise & Co, 1861

Engraved group portrait of seven men in a formal office around a desk, with a quill and papers on the table.

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet

Alexander Hay Ritchie, 1860

Line drawing of three women working in a room: one at a loom, one at a spinning wheel, one sewing.

Making Clothes for the Boys in the Army

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Engraved family portrait of a seated bearded man, a seated woman, two standing boys in uniforms, and two children in a formal

Grant and His Family

William Sartain, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of a deathbed scene with a man in bed, mourning women seated nearby, and standing men in formal dress

Death of General Zachary Taylor

Nathaniel Currier, 1850

Pen-and-ink print of a kneeling woman leaning on a trunk in a cramped room with a hanging lamp, pitcher and crucifix.

Cave Life in Vicksburg

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Engraved group portrait of Union-era men around an allegorical woman holding the Constitution scroll, with an eagle and shiel

Lincoln with Major Union Figures

Henry S. Sadd, c. 1811 - 24 Nov, 1861

Caricature of male figures tightroping over Salt River between North and South, with Abolition Rock and a Constitutional Brid

Political "Blondins" Crossing Salt River

Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Pen drawing of a crowded interior with men gathered near a sign reading Substitutes for Sale, a man in a top hat gesturing.

Substitute Office

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Lithograph of officers gathered in a parlor with framed paintings and a mantelpiece, showing the McLean House surrender scene

The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant

Horace Porter, 1861

Hand-colored print of a man in uniform, a seated woman and two young girls in a Victorian parlor with a bust and landscape pa

George McClellan and Family

George Brinton McClellan, 1860

Pen-and-ink interior scene of figures in a room with an open door showing mounted riders outside, a child on the floor, and a

Slaves Concealing Their Master from a Search Party

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Caricature of elegantly dressed men and women gambling at a green roulette table scattered with coins and banknotes.

J. P. Morgan

Georges Goursat, 1910

Sepia lithograph of tilted portrait cards of nineteenth-century American millionaires, with ships, a locomotive and signature

Millionaires of the U.S.

Samuel Jones Tilden, 1880

Engraved scene of a crowd on a wooden platform, a worker placing a bell among others, and church spires behind.

Offering of Bells to be Cast into Cannon

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Lithograph collage of political portraits, seated Lincoln, allegorical Justice and Liberty figures, and scenes of schooling a

The Republican Souvenir

James Gillespie Blaine, 1861

Political cartoon lithograph of a Democratic wagon pulled by donkeys heading toward a train labeled Equal Rights.

Progressive Democracy - Prospect of a Smash Up

Louis Maurer, 1861

Ink caricature of a bearded rider on a rearing horse beside a signpost to Great Bethel, with a caption below.

General Bombastes as Ubiquitous after Battle of Great Bethel

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Caricature print of two men shaking hands beside a donkey and a stack of books labeled Life and Times of Thomas H. Benton.

Sad Parting Between Two Old Friends

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1840

Lithograph portraits of Daniel Webster and Edward Everett in oval frames, beneath a draped curtain with a tassel.

Daniel Webster and Edward Everett

Joseph Edward Baker, 1860

Line engraving of soldiers searching a bedroom while an officer points at a woman holding a child by a curtain.

Searching For Arms

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Lithograph of a mounted officer in plumed hat on a horse, with cavalry and artillery in a battlefield behind him.

Franz Sigel

Feodor Fuchs, 1861

Hand-colored print of a deathbed scene with mourners in period dress, a draped bed, and a portrait on the wall above.

Death of Harrison

Henry R. Robinson, 1840