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Engraving of a crowded ball in a large hall with coffered ceiling, dancing couples, and swagged American flags.

The Ball in Honor of President Lincoln in the Great Hall at the Patent Office in Washington

founded Illustrated London News, 1860

Cinqué

John Warner Barber, 1840

Hand-colored print of a mounted hunter with a bow chasing a charging bison across green prairie hills.

Hunting the Buffaloe

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph of a deathbed scene with a man in bed surrounded by mourning men in dark suits and uniforms.

Death of Abraham Lincoln

F. P. Whiting, 1860

James Covey

John Warner Barber, 1840

Lithograph of royal figures in a theatre box, a woman with a floral crown in front, men standing behind, draped curtains.

King Kamehameha and Queen Kamamalu

J. W. Gear, 1820

Engraving of men in a violent struggle inside a wooden barn, with hay and tools scattered around the floor.

Desperate Conflict in a Barn

Wesley Harris, 1870

Engraving of a man in a coat raising a knife toward a shirtless man in a room with a chair and table.

Breaking Him In

Theophilus Collins, 1870

Sepia lithograph of a Japanese conference room where uniformed Western officers and Japanese men sit on folding chairs.

Hakodadi Conference Room

Matthew Calbraith Perry, 1850

Lithograph of a seated bearded man reading with his family in a formal parlor, including a woman, children, and a standing yo

Abraham Lincoln and Family

Henry Atwell Thomas, 1860

Caricature lithograph of a man balanced on a rail labeled Republican Platform, carried by two men, titled The Rail Candidate.

Rail Candidate

Louis Maurer, 1860

John Quincy Adams

Napoleon Sarony, 1840

Colored lithograph of a fish with a caricatured man's head wearing spectacles and holding a money bag, with a ship on water.

Francis Martin Drexel

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Two oval engraved portraits of men in period dress printed side by side on facing magazine pages.

Franklin Pierce and William Rufus Devane King

Nichols & Hayes, 1850

Sepia group portrait of nine men in an ornate room with a framed Cornelius Vanderbilt portrait on the wall.

Kings of Wall Street

Root & Tinker, 1880

Oval lithograph of five standing men in 19th-century suits beside an upholstered chair, with a church spire in the background

Prominent Baptist Ministers

Albert Hoffman, 1850

Lithograph of two naval officers in uniform in oval medallions, with an anchor, rope block, and ship in the background.

David D. Porter and David G. Farragut

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Pen-and-ink caricature of a Roman-dressed figure and a crowned harpist labeled Harper's Weekly, by Thomas Nast.

Where there is an Evil

Thomas Nast, 1870

Members, House of Assembly

Isaac Hutton, 1800

Hand-colored print of an assassin with a knife fleeing a theatre box where a seated man is attacked, as audience members reac

Assassination of President Lincoln

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Engraved cartoon of a crowded wedding scene with a bride on a bed, a kneeling groom, and stuffed ballot boxes in front.

The Death-Bed Marriage

Thomas Nast, 1870

Sepia lithograph of a temple compound with tiled-roof buildings, a large tree, a stone well, and villagers on dirt paths.

Temple at Tumai Lew Chew

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Lithograph of an encampment with a tiled-roof wooden pavilion, a flag, robed figures, and stone lanterns among trees.

Encampment of the Exploring Party in Lew Chew

Peter Bernard William Heine, 1850

Lithograph caricature of a man in a dress fleeing soldiers across a field, with a tent and speech bubbles behind him.

Jefferson and Varina Howell Davis

Jefferson Davis, 1860

Engraved family portrait of a uniformed bearded man, a seated woman, and a young girl in a paneled interior with busts.

Stonewall Jackson and Family

William Sartain, 1861

Etching of a plump pig lying on its side against crosshatched shadow, with a small wreath emblem below.

Stonewall Jackson

Frederick Volck, 1861

Lithograph of four seated family members around a table with flowers and books, titled The Washington Family.

The Washington Family

George Washington, 1860

Hand-coloured engraving of a family group in an interior: a seated woman with an infant, a boy, and three men.

Benjamin West and Family

George & Johan Facius, 1770

Engraving of Lafayette seated on a ship as ghostly American patriots appear and sea gods drive away storm clouds.

Marquis De Lafayette

Achille Moreau, 1820

Caricature lithograph of a ballerina dancing on stage while a manager, a despondent man and a newspaper reader look on.

Lola Has Come!

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1850

Engraved group portrait of eight men seated and standing around a table with inkwells and quills, with a draped curtain behin

The Cabinet of the Confederate States at Montgomery

Whitehurst & Hinton, 1861

Engraved print of bearded riders and soldiers with a flag moving through a wooded clearing, with bare trees behind.

Flight of President Davis

Frank Vizetelly, 1861

Hand-colored print of American naval officers landing by boat to meet Japanese officials under pine trees on a riverbank.

Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Simoda, Japan, Ju…

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Engraving of a large amphitheatre with a crowd, a violent melee of armoured figures, and bearded men in classical dress.

Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum

Thomas Nast, 1860

Wood engraving of a crowded formal reception at the White House with officers and women in gowns beneath a chandelier.

Grand Reception at the White House, January, 1862

Alfred Waud, 1861

Engraved caricature of two bearded men playing billiards in a pool hall, one in star-patterned clothing striking a ball.

Great Cannon Game

Sir John Tenniel, 1860

Political cockfight caricature: a rooster with a human head stands over a fallen rooster in an arena, with spectators at ring

The Great Match at Baltimore

Stephen Arnold Douglas, 1861

Satirical lithograph of Uncle Sam greeting job applicants at a doorway, with the White House in the background.

Uncle Sam Making New Arrangements

John Bell, 1861

Ornate calligraphic memorial sheet with an engraved oval portrait of George Washington in military uniform at center.

George Washington

Peter Maverick, 1810

Engraving of bearded Confederate cavalry officer in plumed hat leading mounted troops and a battle flag across a field.

Jeb Stuart

Frank Vizetelly, 1861

Caricature lithograph of men on a dirt road with speech bubbles, a small man with crutch centered, titled Taking the Stump, 1

"Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of His Mother

John Bell, 1861

Engraved cartoon of a tiger attacking a woman in an arena while spectators watch from stands above.

The Tammany Tiger Loose

Thomas Nast, 1870

Engraved certificate of the Southern Orphan Association with a bearded man in military uniform portrait, Richmond 1867.

Stonewall Jackson

Nathaniel Routzahn, 1861

Hand-colored print of a formal landing party at a shoreline with ships at anchor, ranks of soldiers, and hills behind.

First Landing of Americans in Japan

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Etched caricature of a reclining man in a chair with feet on a stool, cherubs holding a laurel wreath above, dog on floor.

Battle at Great Bethel

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Satirical lithograph titled The Democratic Platform showing men stacked as a human platform, with caricatured speech balloons

Democratic Platform

Nathaniel Currier, 1850

Hand-colored print of a wounded officer supported by comrades beside an American flag, with a dead horse and battle smoke beh

Death of Lieutenant Henry Clay Jr.

John Cameron, 1840

Lithograph of a family in a studio: a woman with a book, children, a dog, and an artist painting a large sheet with sketched

Frances Trollope and Family

Frances Trollope, 1830

Engraved Harper's Weekly page of oval portraits of Democratic candidates in ornate floral frames, with a White House vignette

Prominent Candidates for the Democratic Nomination at Charleston, South Carolina

Mathew B. Brady, 1861

Lithograph portrait of General John A. Logan and family, with three scenes above showing cavalry, a domestic room, and a legi

John A. Logan and Family

John Alexander Logan, 1861

Wood engraving of a Japanese visitor seated among elegantly dressed Washington ladies in an ornate room, with newspaper text.

Our Japenese Visitor "Tommy" Among the Ladies of Washington

Tommy, 1860

Etching of an elderly bearded man reading a newspaper at a table beside bottles, with a window behind him.

Peter Platt

Dwight Case Sturges, 1910

Satirical lithograph of a crowd with tools and banners before a Constitution statue, Supreme Court and Senate panels above.

The People Putting Responsibility to the Test

Thomas W. Whitley, 1830

Lithograph caricature: a man in white coat gestures to two Black men while a figure holds a whip and shackles.

A Dodge That Won't Work

John Cameron, 1870

Engraved side-by-side bust portraits of two men in formal 19th-century dress, labeled with their names below.

Herber Chase Kimball and Jedediah Morgan Grant

W. H. Gibbs, 1850

Engraved group portrait of a family in an interior, with a woman holding an infant, a boy, and seated older men.

Benjamin West and Family

D. P. Pariset, 1780

Satirical lithograph of an elderly man in a top hat riding a wheeled chair, with four figures arguing in speech bubbles.

The Elephant and his Keepers

John Cameron, 1870

Black and white print of Lincoln seated in a theatre box as a man with a pistol enters from the right.

Assassination of President Lincoln

Clara Harris Rathbone, 1861

Lithograph group portrait of eight men in formal 19th-century dress, seated and standing, with printed signatures beneath.

Zachary Taylor and his Cabinet

Francis d' Avignon, 1840

Hand-colored lithograph of three portrait busts labeled King Black Hawk, Prophet, and Son on a cream background.

Black Hawk, Son, Prophet

Black Hawk, 1830

Engraving of mounted men gathering in a rocky mountain pass beside a lone pine, with a river valley and moon beyond.

Rendezvous of Mosby's Men

Mason Jackson, 1861

Engraving of men branding a kneeling enslaved woman while others watch, with seated enslaved people on the right.

Branding Slaves

Felch & Riches, 1850

Engraved view of Havana harbor with many ships, palm trees in the foreground, and the city stretching along the shore.

Havana

William Wellstood, 1850

Black and white caricature of men around a round table with glasses, one standing man smoking a cigar, labeled with names.

Newton Booth Tarkington

Carlo de Fornaro, 1910

Engraving of workers processing cane in a steamy wooden mill, with a standing overseer in a hat watching over them.

Plantation Life - Brazil

Felch & Riches, 1850

Engraving of a dying man in bed holding hands with a seated man in a dark suit in a simple bedroom interior.

Death of Romulus Hall

d. Romulus Hall, 1870

Print of four miniature performers in Victorian dress in a central parlor scene, framed by ornate vignettes and a carriage.

General Tom Thumb, Lavinia Warren Stratton, Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren

Mathew B. Brady, 1860

Satirical lithograph of costumed men in ruffs around a seated Falstaff caricature, with speech balloons and a bag labeled Spo

Spoons as Falstaff Mustering the Impeachment Managers

Thomas Worth, 1861

Black and white lithograph of a deathbed scene with mourning men in suits gathered around a man lying in a carved bed.

The Death of Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner, 1870

Engraving of a cadet reading his defense at a table before seated and standing officers in a formal room with tall windows.

Court-Martial of James W. Smith, The Colored Cadet

Albert Berghaus, 1870

Hand-colored engraving of a man lying in bed attended by visitors and a woman in a pink dress in an ornate room.

James A. Garfield

William Allen Rogers, 1880

Engraved portrait of Wong Chin Foo seated in dark robe and skullcap, printed on a Harper's Weekly page with article text.

Wong Chin Foo

George Gardner Rockwood, 1870

Engraving of a man emerging from a wooden crate labeled 'This side up with care' while men in period dress look on.

Resurrection of Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown, 1870

Engraving of a military court of inquiry with uniformed officers, a man holding up a map, and an inset portrait of Johnson C.

The West Point Outrage-The Court of Inquiry in Session

William Allen Rogers, 1880

Engraved print of the Senate chamber in 1850, a standing speaker addressing seated senators with spectators in the gallery.

United States Senate Chamber

Robert Whitechurch, 1850

Hand-colored antique map of Virginia and Chesapeake Bay with mountains, forests, compass rose and framed Native vignettes.

Powhatan

Dirck Grijp, 1610

Hand-colored print of a violent struggle on a ship deck, with armed men with cane knives and a uniformed captain in yellow.

Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad

John Warner Barber, 1840

Hand-colored print of President Lincoln's assassination in a theatre box, with a gunman firing from behind an American flag.

Assassination of President Lincoln

Major Henry Riggs Rathbone, 1861

Colored allegorical print with a central legislative chamber scene, Lincoln and Sumner statues, soldiers, and a plantation vi

The Shackle Broken by the Genius of Freedom

Edward Sachse & Co, 1870

Engraved newspaper page showing a crowd entering a stone fortress gate guarded by soldiers, with smaller scenes around it.

Stampede Among the Negroes in Virginia

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1861

Lithograph group portrait of six men in formal suits, labeled as the first Black senator and representatives in Congress.

First Colored Senator and Representatives

Hiram Rhoades Revels, 1870

Printed advertisement with decorative border announcing Brady's National Gallery of Daguerreotypes on Broadway, New York.

Brady's National Gallery of Daguerreotypes

Mathew B. Brady, 1840

Japanese woodblock triptych of a festival procession with floats, lanterns, parasols, and uniformed men beside a pavilion.

Ulysses S. and Julia B.D. Grant

Hiroshige III, 1861

Wood engraving of eight children and adults in a row before a window, titled Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored.

Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored

Myron H. Kimball, 1860

Engraved political cartoon of a Republican elephant tugging a plank that tips two men off a cliff toward the Capitol dome.

The "Third Term" Trap

Thomas Nast, 1861

Hand-colored print of a bearded man in blue uniform with a seated woman, children, and a girl at a piano in a parlor.

General Grant and His Family

A. L. Weise & Co, 1861

Engraved group portrait of seven men in a formal office around a desk, with a quill and papers on the table.

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet

Alexander Hay Ritchie, 1860

Line drawing of three women working in a room: one at a loom, one at a spinning wheel, one sewing.

Making Clothes for the Boys in the Army

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Engraved family portrait of a seated bearded man, a seated woman, two standing boys in uniforms, and two children in a formal

Grant and His Family

William Sartain, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of a deathbed scene with a man in bed, mourning women seated nearby, and standing men in formal dress

Death of General Zachary Taylor

Nathaniel Currier, 1850

Pen-and-ink print of a kneeling woman leaning on a trunk in a cramped room with a hanging lamp, pitcher and crucifix.

Cave Life in Vicksburg

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Engraved group portrait of Union-era men around an allegorical woman holding the Constitution scroll, with an eagle and shiel

Lincoln with Major Union Figures

Henry S. Sadd, 1861

Caricature of male figures tightroping over Salt River between North and South, with Abolition Rock and a Constitutional Brid

Political "Blondins" Crossing Salt River

Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Pen drawing of a crowded interior with men gathered near a sign reading Substitutes for Sale, a man in a top hat gesturing.

Substitute Office

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Lithograph of officers gathered in a parlor with framed paintings and a mantelpiece, showing the McLean House surrender scene

The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant

Horace Porter, 1861

Hand-colored print of a man in uniform, a seated woman and two young girls in a Victorian parlor with a bust and landscape pa

George McClellan and Family

George Brinton McClellan, 1860