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Colored print of a busy Broadway street with pedestrians, carriages, omnibuses and shop signs.

View of Broadway

Henry Bricher, 1840

Hand-colored print of a mounted officer with sword leading blue-coated infantry toward a fort with the Mexican flag, under sm

Winfield Scott

Colored postcard of the white neoclassical Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with carriages on the street and a fla

Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

Foster & Reynolds, 1900

Hand-colored engraving of a tree-lined Philadelphia street with brick houses, a carriage, and people in period dress.

View in Third Street from Spruce

William Russell Birch, 1800

Hand-colored postcard view of the neoclassical Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with striped awnings and columns.

Patent Office

A. C. Bosselman & Co, 1920

Caricature of two men with large heads on winged cherub bodies leaning on a ledge, with small comic figures in clouds above.

Robson & Crane

Stuart Robson, 1880

Hand-colored print of the U.S. Patent Office building in Washington with columns, carriage and pedestrians.

U.S. Patent Office

Edward Sachse & Co

Engraving of two rowboats with men fighting with oars and poles on choppy water under a cloudy sky.

Fight in Chesapeake Bay

Thomas Sipple, 1870

Bird's-eye engraving of Washington D.C. and the Potomac River with ships, street grid, and a numbered key of landmarks.

Washington D.C. and its Vicinity

Etching of a seated man in a wide hat sketching among standing onlookers, with handwritten inscriptions above and below.

J. A. M. Whistler Self-Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Engraving of people descending a wooded bank to a schooner at night, with wagons among trees and a moon over water.

Heavy Weights - Arrival of a Party at League Island

John Osler, 1870

Engraved battle scene with officers on horseback, smoke-filled ridges, fallen soldiers and American and British flags.

Battle of New Orleans

Joseph Yeager, 1810

Engraving of Mirabeau greeted in a forest by robed men, a winged genius holding a Free France banner, and a rowboat.

Mirabeau Arrive Aux Champs Élisées

Louis-Joseph Masquelier, 1790

Etching of a man in a hat hauling a line in shallow water toward a smoking cone device, with a shore crowd and flag behind.

Bombastes Captures Fort Fisher By Means of a Patent Volcano

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraved scene of a man in a dark coat greeting a crowd of robed men and porters beside thatched huts, with an American flag

Stanley Meeting Livingstone

Colored print of a ceremonial shoreline landing with uniformed troops, robed officials, banners, and many ships anchored in t

Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Yoku-hama, Japan,…

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Hand-colored print of officers aiding a wounded major beside a black horse, with a cannon and battle smoke behind.

Major Ringgold, Mortally Wounded

Edward Williams Clay, 1840

Lithograph of a seated man in civilian dress conferring with uniformed officers gathered among rocks and trees.

Council of War

Peter Kramer, 1861

Etching of an armored, plumed figure with a spear striding through a busy street with horses, signs, and a seated woman.

Bombastes, Conqueror of New Orleans

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraved battle scene of soldiers with flags and smoke in a town square, a fallen drummer in the foreground, and women and a

Death of Major Pierson

James Heath, 1790

Sepia engraving of Ashland, Henry Clay's house, with a classical facade framed by large oak trees and a lawn.

Henry Clay

John Sartain, 1850

Etching of a rider spurring a galloping horse across a field toward a fort with a flag, smoke and soldiers nearby.

Bombastes is Ubiquitus

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of an officer kneeling beside his fallen white horse, with a cannon and soldiers in battle behind.

Samuel Ringgold

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Engraved group portrait of Japanese embassy members in traditional dress with swords, seated and standing with Western attend

The Japanese Embassy and their Attendants

Mathew B. Brady, 1860

Etching of a mounted trumpeter charging toward a water pump, with soldiers, flags and a crouched figure beside it.

Conquest of Ye Pump

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Two-panel political cartoon by Thomas Nast: a bowing man beside a Jeff Davis bail sign, and a muddy-booted man facing a newsp

What I Know About Horace Greeley

Thomas Nast, 1861

Multi-panel colored cartoon showing a man struggling with housekeeping, with a central scene of a man waving farewell to a wo

The Boy Stands on the Burning Deck

Grant E. Hamilton, 1890

Caricature drawing of a ship labeled Experiment, with Andrew Jackson at the stern and idle sailors on deck.

Experiment in Full Operation

Anthony Imbert, 1820

Engraving of Confederate Mississippi troops marching with raised bayonets past mounted officers and flags under trees.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Frank Vizetelly, 1861

Lithograph group portrait of Union army officers in uniform, three seated at a table with swords, others standing behind.

Champions of the Union

Charles Wilkes, 1861