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Multi-panel engraving of Black Union soldiers and workers in camp, trenches, a battle scene, and daily labor tasks.

The Negro in the War - Various Employments of the Colored Men in the Federal Army

C. E. F. Hillen, 1860

Pen-and-ink drawing of a rider on a galloping horse leading cattle and mounted men past a fence and barn.

Jemison's Jayhawkers

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Hand-coloured print of a large tipi encampment on a plain, with mounted riders, horses, dogs and flat-topped bluffs.

Encampment of Piekann Indians

Karl Bodmer, 1840

Colored lithograph of an orange fish with a caricatured man's head holding a money bag, with a sailing ship on calm water.

Gold Fish

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Line engraving of mounted cavalrymen charging through a camp past a sutler's stall with barrels and fleeing figures.

General Stewart's Raid to the White House

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Sepia illustration of the Patent Office building in Washington with columns, an American flag, and horse-drawn carriages on t

Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

Foster & Reynolds, 1920

Line drawing of the neoclassical Patent Office building with columns and a central portico, with a horse-drawn carriage on th

Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1840

Pen drawing of armed men and officers beside a kneeling woman, with a flag, cannon and smoke in the background.

Valiant Men "Dat Fite Mit Sigel"

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraving of a group of figures fleeing through rain across muddy ground toward a wooded area.

Twenty-Eight Fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland

Wilbur F. Osler, 1870

Hand-colored view of a Philadelphia street corner with a large arched-window building, market vendors, and pedestrians on cob

South East Corner of Third and Market Streets

William Russell Birch, 1790

Hand-colored postcard of the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., with columns, flags, a tram and early cars on the street

U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

B. S. Reynolds Co, 1920

Colored print of Union soldiers storming a fort rampart under fire, with an American flag raised at the top and ships on the

Storming Fort Wagner

Robert Gould Shaw, 1861

Hand-colored engraving of a busy Philadelphia waterfront with a tall ship, dockworkers, barrels and a horse-drawn cart.

Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia

William Russell Birch, 1800

Engraving of workers harvesting and processing coffee beans on a tropical plantation beneath palms and rocky mountains.

Plantation Scene - Coffee

Felch & Riches, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of Black Union soldiers charging with flags through smoke at Fort Wagner, with Confederate troops fir

The Gallant Charge of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment

Robert Gould Shaw, 1861

Colored political cartoon of a man riding an elephant at the head of a marching band, with fallen figures on a hill behind.

And Teddy (Roosevelt) Comes Marching Home

Eugene Zimmerman, 1890

Lithograph of caricature rats with human faces clustered around a Government Crib while a man with a rifle looks on.

Fancied Security, or the Rats on a Bender

Louis Maurer, 1861

Colored lithograph of a parade celebrating the Fifteenth Amendment, framed by oval portraits, American flags, and genre scene

The Fifteenth Amendment

James Carter Beard, 1861

Seated bearded man in a tan jacket and dark waistcoat beside a blue vase and open book in a studio interior.

H. H. Richardson

Hubert von Herkomer, 1880

Seated bearded man in grey suit in a warm-toned studio with easel, palette, and Windsor chair, painted in 1900.

John George Brown

Gilbert Gaul, 1900

Painting of a walled garden courtyard with a family group in period dress, a dog, a cat, and a brick house under clouds.

West Family in the Studio Garden

Benjamin West, 1800

Oil portrait of a man in a dark suit seated beside a phonograph, with cylinders, tools and laboratory glassware on a green-dr

Thomas Alva Edison

Abraham Archibald Anderson, 1890

Painting of uniformed officers gathered under a canvas awning in an oak grove, with a saddled white horse and tents nearby.

Zachary Taylor at Walnut Springs

William Garl Browne Jr, 1861

Portrait of an elderly bearded painter with spectacles, holding a brush, seated before a sunset landscape.

George Inness

Franklin C. Courter, 1920

Painting of carriages and horses on a sandy road by a country house, with two dogs in the foreground and trees around.

August Belmont and Isabel Perry

Wouterus Verschuur, 1850

Oil portrait of a young violinist in a dark jacket and white collar playing violin against a dark green background.

Yehudi Menuhin

Mark S. Joffe, 1930

Painting of mounted Union officers galloping across a dusty field under flags, with horses and dust clouds.

Grant and His Generals

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1861

Two men fishing from a rowboat on calm water at sunset, with a fish splashing beside the hull and seagulls overhead.

Grover Cleveland

William F. Kelly, 1890

Group portrait of men in a red-draped room with bookshelves, a tiled floor, a dog, and a window view.

Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside

Christian Schussele, 1860

Man in white turban reclining on red cushions with a hookah on a terrace, a servant at left and a city and mountain behind.

Bayard Taylor

Thomas Hicks, 1850

Group portrait of formally dressed men gathered around a table with a telegraph instrument in a marble-columned interior.

Men of Progress

Christian Schussele, 1860

Pencil portrait of a young boy with short hair and a high collar, drawn on a torn, pale sheet of paper.

Unidentified Boy

George Linen, 1830

Charcoal sketch of a bearded man in the foreground with a second figure reclining behind him, on tan paper.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Anders Zorn, 1890

Matthew Calbraith Perry (with Henry A. Adams)

Furukawa Teiryo, 1850

Aged paper fragment with handwritten receipt text and a flourished signature reading C. W. Peale.

Charles Wilson Peale's autograph

Charles Willson Peale, 1800

Pencil sketch of men in conversation in a columned interior hall, with a saddled horse in the foreground and labeled figures.

Ulysses S. Grant and John Pemberton

Frederick B. Schell, 1861

Brown ink sketch of a female dancer with an arm raised diagonally and draped fabric flowing around her body.

Isadora Duncan

Edmond van Saanen Algi, 1910

Pencil sketch of a mountain landscape with trees and a reflective lake in the foreground, by Alfred R. Waud.

Mount of Temptation and Nazareth

Jane Addams and Alva Belmont

Wallace Morgan, 1910

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly man in a skullcap and spectacles, one hand resting on a table, with ink splatters on his co

Alexander Thomson

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Colourful caricature mural study with a reclining woman, a man serving fruit, a man with cane, a dog, and cherubs in clouds.

Mural Study #3:

John Decker, 1940

Charcoal caricatures: a smiling man in tails holding a top hat, and a figure with windswept hair riding a globe beside a prop

Fred Astaire and Amelia Earhart

Henry Major, 1930

Charcoal sketch of a seated man bent over an open book, with handwritten inscription naming William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells

Orlando Rouland, 1890

Thomas Cole

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Charcoal sketch of a man with a bow tie holding a palette and brushes beside an easel in a studio.

Charles Dana Gibson

William Glackens, 1900

Watercolor of a group of men in dark suits gathered around a draped table in a columned interior room.

Men of Progress

Christian Schussele, 1850

Five loose blue crayon head studies of a bearded older man on tan paper, inscribed "Walt Whitman" and dated April 17, 81.

Walt Whitman

Frank Hill Smith, 1880

Sepia drawing of three men playing chess, with caricatured top-hatted chess pieces on the board.

Theodore Roosevelt, John Milton Hay, Joseph Gurney Cannon

Charles Davis Mitchell, 1910

Pencil drawing of two men at an ornate wooden railing, one smiling with papers, the other bearded and reading.

American Royalty

Edward Tennyson Reed, 1900

Engraved political cartoon of a revolver and hands over newsprint reading Tilden or Blood, by Thomas Nast.

Tilden or Blood Compromise - Indeed!

Thomas Nast, 1870

Caricature of four men playing baseball, labeled with political factions, one holding a ball at home base.

The National Game

Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Colored cartoon of two men with money bags waiting at gates to Cuba and Porto Rico, beside a worker and industrial goods.

Waiting for the Gates to Open

Frederick Victor Gillam, 1890

Engraving of a man in a top hat reaching toward a seated woman in a railway car interior, with a seated observer at right.

Dry-goods Merchant Searching the Cars

FOY, 1870

Engraved page with two bust portraits: Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll on the left and actor Lester Wallack in an oval on the rig

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Hand-colored engraving of a formal White House-style reception where Native American delegates in feathered headdresses meet

Andrew Johnson: Indian Delegations at Washington - Presentation to the President

Alexander Gardner, 1860

Small pale card with the flourished script name D. B. Woodbury centered on it.

D. B. Woodbury business card

D. B. Woodbury, 1860

Engraving of a crowded 19th-century photographic gallery with framed portraits on the walls and visitors on tufted benches.

M.B. Brady's New Photographic Gallery in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper"

Albert Berghaus, 1860

Wood engraving of a horse-drawn carriage crowded with a woman, children and men, driving past onlookers on a town street.

Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses

Harriet Shepherd, 1870

Wood engraving of a woman and seven children gathered in a room, with a man in a hat standing at left beside a bundle.

Mother Escaping with Seven Children

Ann Maria Jackson, 1870

Black-and-white lithograph of the Lincoln family: seated man, standing man, woman in a long dress, a boy writing, and a small

Lincoln Family

Edward Valois, 1880

Engraving of a formal room where a white-haired man greets feathered Native American delegates before a crowd in period dress

The President of the United States Inducing the Hostile Tribes of the Pawnees and the Poncas to Shake Hands

founded Illustrated London News, 1850

Printed business card for Fredricks' Knickerbocker Family Portrait Gallery in New York, with ornate lettering and pricing.

Buisness card of Charles Fredricks

Charles DeForest Fredricks, 1880

Engraving of seated, chained men packed closely in a low ship's hold, with a printed explanatory caption below.

Engraving of Slaves in the Hold

John Warner Barber, 1840

Engraved key showing numbered portraits of senators in a Senate chamber as Daniel Webster addresses them, 1850.

Key to Webster Addresses the Senate

Daniel Webster, 1850