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Engraved portrait of a standing man with a musket and fur cloak, with seated figures and a mountain behind him.

Philip, King of Mount Hope

Paul Revere, 1710

Engraved memorial print with an oval portrait of George Washington, surrounded by allegorical figures, cannons and cherubs.

George Washington

Enoch G. Gridley, 1800

Hand-colored print of a uniformed officer with a sword beside a tree, with army tents and an American flag behind him.

Martin Robison Delany

Abraham Bogardus, 1850

Engraved full-length portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit beside a carved chair, table, books and draped curtain.

Ulysses S. Grant

John Chester Buttre, 1861

Caricature of an American jockey in pale blue silks riding a galloping chestnut racehorse past a white rail.

An American Jockey

Godfrey Douglas Giles, 1890

Hand-colored lithograph of a crowd in a tropical clearing as a rifle is fired, with thatched huts, palms and gunsmoke.

Catlin the celebrated Indian traveller and artist, firing his Colt's Repeating Rifle before a tribe of Carib Indians…

John M. McGahey, 1850

Engraving of Native figures offering fruit and baskets before a stone column, with a bearded European man and armed soldiers

The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Captain Ribault

Theodor de Bry, 1590

Line drawing of a tilted ship mast and wreckage in choppy water, with wooded shore and distant sailboats.

Stone Blockade Off Charleston

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a top hat and ruff collar, holding a scroll, with a ship in the frame.

Sir Thomas Smythe (Smith)

Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May, 1610

Colour print of an elderly bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark suit holding a pink cloak, in an arched frame.

Walt Whitman

Richard Shugg, 1870

Pen-and-ink drawing of mounted riders and horses gathered at a stream beside trees, with a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat

General Stewart's Return from Pennsylvania

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Political cartoon Jingo: Liberty between two heads labeled Free Trade and Protection, with poor and prosperous families below

Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine

Grover Cleveland, 1880

Decorative lithograph of a parade on a tree-lined avenue, framed by portrait busts, flags, and vignettes of labor, school, an

The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accompli…

Metcalf & Clark, 1861

Pen drawing of an armed man striding forward as a mounted band with a banner approaches; a woman and child sit at left.

Formation of Guerilla Bands

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Full-length portrait of a bearded naval officer on a ship deck, with a rowboat and American flag on the river behind him.

John L. Worden

John Lorimer Worden, 1860

Engraved newspaper spread of General Garfield's home and offices in Mentor, Ohio, with a central parlor scene.

James Garfield

James Abram Garfield, 1880

Pen-and-ink drawing of bearded men gathered under trees near tents, some kneeling in the foreground.

Scene in Stonewall Jackson's Camp

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraving of an allegorical tomb scene with robed figures, palm fronds, and a winged figure beside a sarcophagus under a Goth

Le Tombeau de Voltaire

Charles Macret, 1770

Sepia lithograph of mounted officers under large trees, with a column of soldiers and tents on a distant hill.

Surrender of General Lee

Peter S. Duval, 1861

Pen drawing of a fortress gateway with armed guards watching chained men working with shovels and a cart in a courtyard.

Butler's Victims of Fort St. Philip

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Colored cartoon of two men on a rocky mountain path toward the White House, one offering a guide, the other declining.

On the Road

Joseph Keppler, 1861

Circus poster with portraits of P. T. Barnum and J. A. Bailey beside a jockey racing a horse against a runner.

Greatest Show on Earth

P. T. Barnum, 1890

Pen drawing of a mounted officer with raised sabre riding past a seated man beside a pump, with soldiers in an open field beh

Ye Conquest of Ye Pump

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Daniel Webster

William Henry Brown, 1840

Poster of a mustached rider in a fringed buckskin jacket and wide hat on a dappled grey horse, with trees behind.

"Buffalo Bill" Cody

Rosa Bonheur, 1910

Pen-and-ink drawing of four men in a rowboat crossing water, one standing with a rifle, others rowing.

Marylanders Crossing the Potomac to Join the Southern Army

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Woodcut of a hunter firing a rifle at a charging bear in a snowy forest, with a small dog nearby.

Crockett's Desperate Fight with a Bear

David Crockett, 1830

Hand-colored print of a bearded naval officer in uniform on a deck, with a rowboat and fort on the river behind him.

John Lorimer Worden

John Lorimer Worden, 1860

Pen drawing of two men by a river in dense jungle, one using a telescope on a tripod, with tall vine-draped trees.

Vicksburg Canal

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Monochrome print of a bearded rider in a long coat and hat on a grey horse, standing in a grassy field with a fence behind.

Robert E. Lee

Michael Miley, 1861