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Political cartoon of two bearded men at a pit, one holding a newspaper nominating Horace Greeley, with a goat and a domed bui

Cincinnatus

Thomas Nast, 1870

Engraved crowd scene of a paddle steamer landing with Japanese and American flags, soldiers, and a procession carrying a box.

The Landing of the Japanese Embassy

A. F, 1860

Etching of football players tackling on a field, with classical columned buildings and a stadium in the background.

Red Grange

Henry Farré, 1920

Engraved battle scene of massed soldiers, cannon smoke, and flags near New Orleans, with a portrait medallion below.

A Correct View of the Battle Near the City of New Orleans, January 8, 1815

Francisco Scacki, 1810

Political cartoon by Thomas Nast showing two men carrying a figure on a stretcher toward a gate, with a train and animals nea

We Are on the Home Stretch

Thomas Nast, 1870

Hand-colored print of uniformed troops and drummers drilling before a tiled-roof temple with pine trees and spectators.

Exercise of Troops in Temple Grounds

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Colored lithograph of the naval battle between the Kearsarge and Alabama, with a listing ship, smoke, and crew in boats.

The Fight Between the "Alabama" and the "Kearsarge" Off Cherbourg, June 19, 1864

Gustav W. Seitz, 1861

Satirical lithograph of seven caricatured figures with speech bubbles, captioned The Great Republican Reform Party.

Great Republican Reform Party

Louis Maurer, 1861

Political caricature lithograph of two ships at sea, uniformed men on a rocky shore, open chests and papers with printed labe

Andrew Jackson

Henry R. Robinson, 1830

Engraving of soldiers supporting a dying officer on a smoky battlefield beneath tattered flags and a bare tree.

Death of General Montgomery

Johan Frederik Clemens, 1790

Engraved scene of soldiers wrestling a rearing horse in an arena while a rider falls, with a boy and spectators nearby.

Occupation of Ye Wicked City of Baltimore

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Hand-colored print of naval officers under a large tree overlooking a hillside village and a procession of uniformed men.

Return of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron from an Official Visit to the Prince Regent at Shui, Capi…

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Engraving of a sugar plantation with sugarcane, banana plants, a worker with a hoe, and buildings beside a river.

Plantation Scene - Sugar

Felch & Riches, 1850

Hand-colored print of a crowd under a canopy at a cornerstone ceremony in Honolulu, with mountains behind.

Lot Kamehameha

G. H. Burgess, 1860

Colored print of an American cutter rowing through a fleet of Japanese boats on a bay, with a snowy mountain behind.

Passing the Rubicon

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Engraving of a plantation scene with oxen hauling cotton bales over a bridge while workers pick cotton in the field.

Cotton Picking

Felch & Riches, 1850

Engraving of people boarding a steamboat gangplank at a dock, with men in top hats, women, children, and a Camden and Amboy s

Rescue of Jane Johnson and her Children

Jane Johnson, 1870

Colored lithograph titled Heroes of the Colored Race with three central portraits, eagle and flags above, and scenes of farm,

Heroes of the Colored Race

Joseph Hoover, 1861

Engraving of a desert caravan with camels and turbaned men, with bearded captives seated in the foreground among scattered bu

Christian Slavery in Barbery

Felch & Riches, 1850

Engraving of a tall man in a top hat walking through a street with soldiers while a crowd cheers and tosses hats.

Lincoln in Richmond

Lambert Hollis, 1861

Engraved group portrait of George Washington and family seated at a table with a map, globe, and standing attendant.

The Washington Family

Edward Savage, 1790

Engraving of enslaved Africans being inspected and restrained on a shore beside a sailing ship, with a seated merchant at lef

African Slave Traffic

Felch & Riches, 1850

Pen-and-ink caricature of a woman in a bonnet and crinoline speaking to a seated bearded man at a desk beside a US map.

Mrs. North and Her Attorney

Sir John Tenniel, 1860

Engraved portrait of a bearded seated man, a boy, a standing young man, and a woman in black at a draped table.

Lincoln and Family

William Sartain, 1860

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

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

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-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

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

James Garfield

James Abram Garfield, 1880

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lithograph of Civil War naval officers in uniform posing on a ship deck beside cannons and rope.

Civil War Naval Officers

John Lorimer Worden, 1861

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

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

Engraved portrait of a bearded elderly man seated with a pen in a book-filled study beside a fireplace.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Samuel Hollyer, 1880

Hand-colored group portrait of Union officers in blue uniforms gathered around a table with a map, labeled with names.

Grant and his Generals

Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1861

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

Engraved print of a crowded formal reception with guests in period dress and uniforms under chandeliers.

Grand Reception of the Notabilities of the Nation

Julia Boggs Dent Grant, 1861

Bearded man in a dark coat stands by a gravestone inscribed Gen Thos J. Jackson, with floral wreaths and a willow tree.

Grave of Stonewall Jackson

Mathew B. Brady, 1861

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

Black and tan woodcut of the Alamo battle showing a falling rifleman, smoke, a brick wall, and fallen soldiers.

Fall of the Alamo: Death of Crockett

David Crockett, 1830

Poster of a charging bison framing an oval portrait of Col. W.F. Cody, with herd running behind and title I AM COMING below.

I Am Coming

Charles E. Stacy, 1900

Pen-and-ink drawing of a street riot with armed men and soldiers, a sail maker building, and ship masts at a harbor.

Battle in Baltimore, April 19, 1861

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Engraving of sailors tending a wounded captain on a ship deck, with a pointing officer, smoke, rigging and a banner reading D

The Death of Captain James Lawrence on Board the Chesapeake, June 1st 1813

Ralph Rawdon, 1810

Lithograph of a crowded 19th-century city intersection with shop signs, street vendors, dancers, a carriage and a pig.

Five Points, 1827

McSpedon & Baker, 1850

Pen-and-ink drawing of soldiers charging with rifles and bayonets among tents, smoke rising, a fallen man in the foreground.

Fight at Santa Rosa Island

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Engraving of six riders on two horses on a hillside beside an overturned wagon and a fallen man, with a farmhouse in the dist

Six on Two Horses

Wilbur F. Osler, 1870

Engraved group portrait of Lincoln, Winfield Scott and officers gathered around a table with a map, 1861.

Winfield Scott and Generals

H. B. Hall, 1861

Pen-and-ink drawing of men unloading a boat on a riverbank with a mule, barrels, a crate and a man in a top hat.

Smuggling Medicines into the South

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Hand-colored lithograph of a wounded officer lying beside a horse, with two officers standing over him in a wooded battlefiel

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold

Samuel Ringgold, 1840

Engraving of men searching a schooner deck with axes and tools, with rigging and a wooden barrel behind them.

The Mayor and Police of Norfolk Searching Capt. Fountain’s Schooner

Edmund Birckhead Bensell, 1870

Pen drawing of mounted riders and foot soldiers crossing rocky desert ground, one rider holding a long pennant aloft.

Johnston Crossing the Desert to Join the Southern Army

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of a mounted officer amid fallen soldiers, a cannon, and an American flag under a palm tree.

The Death of Major Ringgold at the Battle of Palo Alto, May 8, 1946

Kelloggs & Thayer, 1840

Engraving of a battle scene with a cannon, a rearing horse and soldiers tending a wounded officer on the ground.

Palo Alto, Death of Major Ringgold

John C. McRae, 1840

Line drawing of drovers herding cattle and pigs past covered wagons along a wooded dirt road.

Return of a Raiding Party from Pennsylvania

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Colored print of the neoclassical Patent Office in Washington, D.C., with columns, a flag, and horse-drawn carriages on the s

Patent Office

Foster & Reynolds, 1920