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Lithograph of ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimac in battle at Hampton Roads, surrounded by interior ship detail views.

The First Naval Conflict Between Iron Clad Vessels

Charles Parsons, 1860

Hand-colored print of two officers standing on a dirt road, with mounted soldiers and a tent camp behind them.

Surrender of General Joe Johnston

Joseph Eggleston Johnston, 1861

Satirical print of a dancer on a swan boat with a cupid, waves below, and a steamship on the horizon.

Lola Coming

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1850

Lithograph of a family in an ornate parlor: a bearded man reading a newspaper, a girl, two women, and a marble fireplace.

Horace Greeley and Family

Otto Knirsch, 1870

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