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Lithograph of presidents' portrait medallions around a central portrait of Lewis Cass, under an eagle and flags.

Lewis Cass

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Engraved group portrait of nineteenth-century men gathered in a columned room around a table with a telegraph device.

Men of Progress

John Sartain, 1860

Satirical lithograph of a fly caught in a web, with spiders bearing human faces and two men watching at lower left.

Big Blue Bottle Fly in the Web

Edward Williams Clay, 1850

Lithograph portrait of a seated man in formal dress holding a rolled paper, with dedication text and signature below.

George Copway

Elisha Forbes, 1840

Etched portrait of a standing man in a dark overcoat with eyeglasses and mustache, one hand resting on a pedestal.

Theodore Roosevelt

Albert Rosenthal, 1900

Political cartoon lithograph of large rolling balls labeled with state names crushing a man beneath them, with an eagle above

The Balls are Rolling - Clear the Track

Nathaniel Currier, 1850

Oval lithograph portrait of a bearded older man in a dark coat and bow tie, captioned Rev. Theodore Parker.

Theodore Parker

Alfred K. Kipps, 1850

Sepia engraving of many men in dark suits seated and standing in a Gothic-arched chamber with a carved balcony.

Distinguished Americans

Thomas Doney, 1850

Engraved portrait of Lieutenant Maury on a Ballou's Pictorial newspaper page with a harbor scene masthead.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

George H. Hayes, 1850

Black-and-white lithographic portrait of Henry Wilson in dark coat, white shirt and black cravat, with printed caption below.

Henry Wilson

Mathew B. Brady, 1870

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man with white beard in a dark coat, against a hatched background.

James Russell Lowell

Jacques Reich, 1890

Engraved political cartoon of two men in feathered costume beside tepees and a campaign placard, by Thomas Nast, 1880.

The Smiths Give a Great Deal of Trouble

Thomas Nast, 1880

Engraved portrait of a balding man in a dark coat and white cravat, looking directly at the viewer.

William Harris Crawford

Asher Brown Durand, 1820

Oval lithograph portrait of a bald, bespectacled man in a dark coat and cravat, captioned William Lloyd Garrison.

William Lloyd Garrison

Alfred K. Kipps, 1850

Engraved bust portrait of a mustached man in pince-nez glasses and dark suit against a hatched background.

Theodore Roosevelt

Jacques Reich, 1900

Engraved portrait of a seated man in dark dress holding papers, with classical columns and a draped curtain behind him.

Nicholas Biddle

Henry Dawe, 1830

Engraved portrait of a uniformed officer above views of a river mill with steamship and a fortified bluff, from Harper's Week

Leonidas Polk

Mathew B. Brady, 1861

Engraved bust portrait of Robert E. Lee on a 1863 Southern Illustrated News page with printed columns.

Robert E. Lee

John W. Torsch, 1861

Lithographed farewell address with an oval portrait of a bearded officer between two Confederate flags and cannonballs.

Robert E. Lee

Ernest Crehen, 1861

Political caricature lithograph of men hunting a leaping buck, one aiming a rifle, with the White House in the distance.

The Great American Buck Hunt of 1856

Nathaniel Currier, 1861

Colored caricature of Washington with a large shadow over the White House lawn, labeled Rough Rider Roosevelt, and caricature

Is it Only a Shadow?

Grant E. Hamilton, 1861

Oval engraved portrait of a man in a braided military jacket and tasseled fur cap, with caption naming Kosciusko.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Etched portrait of a seated, mustached man in a dark suit, one hand on a cane, against a pale background.

William Howard Taft

Anders Zorn, 1910

Campaign banner with oval portraits of Henry Clay and T. Frelinghuysen under an eagle, flags, and red curtains.

The Nation's Choice for President and Vice President

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Lithograph of a group of men at a literary party in a room with columns, bookshelves and a wall bust, c. 1860.

Our Great Authors

Oval lithograph portrait of an older man with white hair and spectacles, wearing a dark coat and cravat.

Horace Mann

Francis d' Avignon, 1850

Black and white lithograph portrait of a man with long dark hair, wearing a dark coat and a plaid scarf, turned to the right.

Peter Perkins Pitchlynn

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Maude Adams

Samuel Arlent Edwards, 1900

Engraved print with two oval profiles: a black silhouette of a man with tied hair beside a line drawing of an older man.

George Washington and Benjamin Franklin

Johann Caspar Lavater, 1780

Etched oval bust portrait of an elderly man with a white beard and round spectacles, signed Schneider.

Christopher Columbus Langdell

Otto J. Schneider, 1900