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Engraved oval portrait of an older man with wavy hair in a dark jacket and striped cravat on cream paper.

John B. Moreau

Benson John Lossing, 1850

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair and a double-breasted coat, inside an ornate scrolled frame.

James Henry Hackett

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Engraved portrait of a bald older man in a dark coat and white cravat, holding a book, with an inscription below.

The Rev. Morris Brown of Philadelphia

Albert Newsam, 1840

Colored campaign banner with portraits of John C. Fremont and William L. Dayton, an eagle, Liberty, and flags.

Grand National Republican Banner

Nathaniel Currier, 1861

Bau

John Warner Barber, 1840

Engraved oval portrait of George Washington with powdered white hair, dark coat and lace jabot, on a cream paper mount.

George Washington

John Roberts, 1790

Oval lithographic portrait of a bearded man in a military coat with star collar insignia, captioned Major General J. E. B. St

J. E. B. Stuart

James Ewell Brown Stuart, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of Ka-Na-Pi-Ma, an Ottawa chief, shown in a dark jacket and white shirt.

Ka-na-pi-ma - An Ottawa Chief

H. D, 1840

Hand-colored print of a man in a red turban, hoop earrings, nose ring, and blue coat with red painted face stripe.

Payta-kootha

Henry Inman, 1830

Engraving of a man in a ruffled shirt rising from an open wooden chest, titled Escaping in a Chest, page 283.

Lear Green Escaping in a Chest

Lear Green, 1870

Engraved portrait of a man with wavy hair in a fur-trimmed coat, with the handwritten signature John J. Audubon below.

John James Audubon

John Sartain, 1830

Harper's Weekly page with two satirical cartoons of role-reversed domestic life above columns of 19th-century advertisements.

How it Would Be, if Some Ladies Had Their Own Way

Harper's Weekly, 1860

Hand-colored portrait print of a man with long dark hair, a draped white cloth, and a blue oval cameo pendant.

A-na-cam-e-gish-ca

Charles Bird King, 1830

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark suit beside a desk with a marble bust, books, and a globe.

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

John Sartain, 1861

Saint-Mémin folio 4

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1780

Lithograph portrait of Franklin Pierce in dark coat and cravat, bust-length, turned left, with printed title below.

Franklin Pierce

Francis d' Avignon, 1850

Engraved portrait of an elderly clergyman with grey hair holding an open book, with a church spire visible through a window.

Richard Channing Moore

Peter Maverick, 1810

Oval engraved portrait of Benjamin Franklin in a fur cap and coat, with a hatched oval border and printed caption below.

Benjamin Franklin

Robert Pollard, 1770

Joseph Gurney Cannon

Carlo de Fornaro, 1910

John Burgoyne

Robert Pollard, 1770

Miss Burges

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1790

Hand-colored portrait of Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah, a Sioux chief, with feathered headdress, braids and red face paint.

Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah: A Sioux Chief

John T. Bowen, 1830

Charles N. D. Gervais

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a dark military-style coat with curly hair, captioned Genl McDuffie, within a brown border

George McDuffie

George McDuffie, 1850

Hand-colored print portrait of a man with a dark feathered crest, hoop earrings, draped blanket and sword.

Kai-pol-e-qua - White Nosed Fox

R. T, 1830

Ahyouwaighs - Chief of the Six Nations

R. T, 1830

Engraved 1840 map of part of Western Africa showing rivers, coastline, place names and a longitude and latitude grid.

Map of Guinea

John Warner Barber, 1840

Gnakwoi

John Warner Barber, 1840

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of Moa-Na-Hon-Ga, an Ioway chief, with red feathered headdress and beaded necklace.

Moa-Na-Hon-Ga: An Ioway Chief

Charles Bird King, 1830

Engraved oval portrait of bearded Col. W. R. Lee in dark military uniform, framed by a gold border.

William Raymond Lee

William Raymond Lee, 1850