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Lithograph of a deathbed scene with an elderly man on a bed, mourners, a clergyman and a physician in period dress.

Death of General Lee

George Washington Custis Lee, 1861

Political cartoon of men reacting to a snarling black cat, Spirit of Discord, escaping a Republican Bag, 1860 lithograph.

Letting The Cat Out of The Bag

Louis Maurer, 1860

Political caricature of four men around a small figure in a hat, with boastful campaign text panels above.

Soliciting a Vote

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1850

Engraved portrait of a reclining man in a dark coat on a couch, with drapery, a table with books, and a landscape.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko

William Sharp, 1800

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Hand-colored print of three-tier bunks and rifle racks in the Patent Office, with glass cabinets along the left wall.

Sleeping-Bunks of the First Rhode Island Regiment, at the Patent Office, Washington

U.S. Patent Office, 1860

Lithograph of a seated bearded man and family group in a parlor, with oval portraits and a domed building on the wall.

Benjamin Harrison and Family

Benjamin Harrison, 1880

Lithographic poster of five performers in exaggerated costumes around a wooden table, with banners reading Great Musical Dram

Out of Bondage

Joseph Edward Baker, 1870

Engraving of a crowded legislative chamber with men in period dress, wigs and Windsor chairs beneath classical columns.

Congress Voting Independence

Edward Savage, 1800

J. A. M. Whistler

Giovanni Boldini, 1890

Hand-colored print of Sauk and Fox men in feathered headdresses performing a war dance, with seated drummers at left.

War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes

Edward Corbould, 1830

Engraved interior of Independence Hall with a marble statue, portrait paintings, the Liberty Bell, and visitors in period dre

Independence Hall

John Neagle, 1850

Colour lithograph caricature of a judge gesturing at a crowd of women and men with satirical placards, 1890.

Find the Group in Favor of Woman's Suffrage

Grant E. Hamilton, 1890

Engraved portraits of Benjamin F. Butler and Alexander H. Stephens with name captions on a tan page, numbered 12.

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Grabeau

John Warner Barber, 1840

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

Colored cartoon of Uncle Sam and John Bull striding through sugarcane scattering books and papers labeled civilization and ed

The Two Great Missioners of Civilization

Frederick Victor Gillam, 1890

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

Blue printed business card advertising L. H. Griffin's Ambrotype Rooms at 268 Washington Street, Boston, with prices.

Business card for L. H. Griffin's Ambrotype Rooms

L. H. Griffin, 1850

Engraved east view of Philadelphia from the river, with spires, ships and rowboats, and insets of the State House and Battery

The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania

George Heap, 1760

Lithograph of General Grant seated with a young boy on his lap, a family group around a table with an open book.

General Grant and Family

Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1861

Colored caricature of men in tutus and ballet slippers rehearsing on stage while a top-hatted conductor watches.

Full Dress Rehearsal of the Grand Presidential Corps de Ballet

Charles Kendrick, 1861