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Engraved street view of the neoclassical Patent Office building with columns and a pediment, with a horse-drawn carriage in f

Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1830

Lithograph of a mounted officer raising his hat on a rearing black horse, with bugler and infantry behind him.

Ebenezer Dumont

Ebenezer Dumont, 1860

Hand-coloured engraving of the frigate United States capturing the British frigate Macedonian at sea, with gunsmoke and storm

Capture of H. B. M. Frigate Macedonian, Capt. J. S. Carden by the U. S. frigate United States, Stephen Decatur, Eqr.,…

Benjamin Tanner, 1810

Wood engraving of the Patent Office Building in Washington with pedestrians and carriages, on a page of Gleason's Pictorial w

A View of the Patent Office Building

U.S. Patent Office, 1850

Lithograph of a bearded officer in uniform and kepi riding a rearing black horse, cape flying behind him.

Jefferson C. Davis

Jefferson Columbus Davis, 1860

Engraved portrait of a bearded officer in uniform and wide hat, with binoculars and a river map beside him.

Ulysses S. Grant

James Fagan, 1861

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man in spectacles seated at a desk with a map, globe, bust, and military scene behind him.

Edwin M. Stanton

Edwin McMasters Stanton, 1850

Hand-colored caricature of a rooster with a smiling human face, black neck ribbon, beside a beer mug and pipe.

Jolly Old Cock

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Colored postcard of the U.S. Patent Office building in Washington D.C. with columns, striped awnings and a flag.

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

Illustrated Post Card Co, 1910

Richard Riker

Dominico Canova, 1820

Engraving of a man with raised axe beside a hollow tree, a coiled snake on the ground, and dense forest behind.

Living in a Hollow Tree

Harry Grimes, 1870

Engraving of Civil War soldiers and mounted officers fighting under heavy smoke, with fallen men and an American flag.

Battle of Bull Run

Harper's Weekly, 1860

Lithograph of a seated man at a desk beside a wall map, a bust, a globe, and a view of a military parade outside.

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of a raccoon with a human face and bow tie walking along a mossy branch among leaves.

Same Old Coon

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Lithograph of a mounted officer in dark uniform pointing forward, his black horse rearing beside a fallen soldier on a battle

George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas, 1861

Poster of Eddie Foy in a red and white striped suit, smiling, with song titles listed on the left.

When There's No Light at All

Edward Foy, 1910

Hand-colored lithograph of a fish with a mustached man's face and bow tie, resting among grass beside a musical-note slab.

C-Bass

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Engraving of Capac and Oella instructing Peruvians under a large tree, with a robed figure standing on a rock before seated o

"The Columbiad" -- Capac and Oella Instructing the Peruvians in Agriculture and Spinning

William Bromley, 1800

Engraved Harper's Weekly page with scenes of street rioting, a looted clothing store, and a dead man in the street.

Harper's Weekly

Theodore R. Davis, 1860

Hand-colored print of a woodpecker with a human face in a bow tie, perched on a branch with green leaves.

Woodpecker

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Hand-colored print of the U.S. Patent Office building with columns, carriages, and riders on horseback in the street.

U.S. Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1850

Good Night Dear

Billie Burke, 1900

Sailors of a battleship band play brass and drums on a gun turret, with warships and a mountainous coast behind them.

The Storming of San Juan

Frederic Remington, 1890

Lithograph of a uniformed officer on a rearing dark horse, raising his hat, with a sabre at his side and a caption naming Bri

Alexander M. McCook

Alexander McDowell McCook, 1860

Engraved view of the burning Patent Office in Washington with fire engines, firemen, smoke, and two inset scenes of rescue an

Burning of the United States Patent Office from The Daily Graphic, Sept. 27, 1877

U.S. Patent Office, 1870

Engraved portrait of Patrick Lyon seated with dividers over a map, in front of a stone wall and barred window.

Patrick Lyon

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

View of Broadway

Henry Bricher, 1840

Lithograph of a bearded officer in uniform raising his hat on a grey horse, with marching soldiers behind him.

Samuel P. Heintzelman

Samuel Peter Heintzelman, 1861

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

Winfield Scott

Hand-colored print of dancer Fanny Elssler as La Cracovienne in blue skirt and yellow bodice before domes and minarets.

Fanny Elssler

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1840