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Oval engraved portrait of General Carleton in military uniform with powdered hair and white cravat, within a wavy-line border

Sir Guy Carleton

Robert Pollard, 1770

Harper's Weekly engraving page of the Chinese College in Hartford, with a school-room scene, a portrait of Yung Wing, and bui

The Chinese College at Hartford, Connecticut

Yung Wing, 1870

Hand-colored lithographic portrait of a Seminole chief in a blue headdress with a red feather and striped clothing.

Yaha-hajo - A Seminole Chief

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1840

Hand-colored lithograph of John Adams seated at a table with books, wearing a black coat and white lace cravat.

John Adams

Nathaniel Currier, 1830

Oval engraved portrait of Frederick Lord North in powdered wig and military coat with a star badge.

Lord Frederick North

Robert Pollard, 1770

Hand-colored lithograph of a bird with a bespectacled man's head perched on a quill pen beside an inkwell and paper.

Literary Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair, double-breasted coat and checkered cravat, captioned Hon. Abram Galloway.

Hon. Abram Galloway, Secreted in a Vessel Loaded with Turpentine

Abraham Galloway, 1870

Colored poster of a standing bearded man in a white sweater beside a tall pole, with advertising text at left.

Robert Frederick Blum

William Sergeant Kendall, 1890

Hand-coloured print of a man's face framed inside an orange five-armed starfish with knobbed spines.

Star Fish

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Pablo Casals

Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1910

Engraved portrait of a mustached man in a dark military uniform, labeled Gen. C. D. Jameson, in an oval frame.

Charles Davis Jameson

Charles Davis Jameson, 1850

Lithographic full-length portrait of a standing man in zouave uniform with sword, arms crossed, caption below.

Elmer Ellsworth

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, 1850

Black-and-white caricature of a standing man in a striped hat and black overcoat, hands in pockets, labelled Thomas Edison.

Thomas Alva Edison

Carlo de Fornaro, 1910

Engraved oval frontispiece with classical allegorical women, a scroll and book, and two putti holding books below.

Frontispiece to New Universal Biographical Dictionary and American Remembrancer

John Scoles, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of Alexander H. Stephens, a man with tousled hair and a dark bow tie, in a brown mount.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 1850

Line drawing caricature of a frowning elderly man in a wide hat, round glasses and bow tie, labeled S. Gompers.

Samuel Gompers

Carlo de Fornaro, 1910

Satirical engraving of a donkey-headed man carrying a carpetbag labeled Gen. Weaver past a palm tree and onlookers, from Harp

Another Fool's Errand!

Thomas Nast, 1880

Thomas Bolling Robertson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a ruff and Garter collar, framed by a heraldic crest and inscriptions.

Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester

Simon de Passe, 1610

Hand-colored portrait of Moa-na-hong-ga, an Ioway chief, with feathered headdress, red face paint and beaded necklace.

Moa-na-hong-ga - Great Walker

Charles Bird King, 1830

Harper's Weekly cover illustration of sailors in a small boat at night near a smoking steamship under bursting shells.

U.S. Calvary at Port Tampa, Florida

Frederic Remington, 1890

Oval engraved portrait of a mustached man in military uniform, with an eagle and American flag above, captioned Col. Corcoran

Michael Corcoran

Michael Corcoran, 1861

Engraved oval portrait of John Hancock in a powdered wig and embroidered coat, printed on a book page.

John Hancock

Robert Pollard, 1770

Hand-colored print portrait of Micanopy, a Seminole chief, in a black feathered headdress and blue mantle with a silver medal

Micanopy - A Seminole Chief

R. T, 1830

Lithograph of General Winfield Scott in uniform gesturing beside a white horse, with a dark cloud-filled sky behind.

General Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott, 1840

Hand-colored portrait of a man with dark hair in a blue garment with red trim and a white collar.

Oche-Finceco

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1840

Hand-colored print of a deathbed scene under a gold-trimmed canopy, with mourners and a clergyman gathered around the bed.

Death of Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor, 1850

Mary Anderson

Olaf Almquist, 1880

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of a Chippewa man with face paint, feathered headdress and green blanket.

No-Tin - A Chippewa Chief

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1840

Engraved oval portrait of a uniformed officer with mustache, beneath an eagle holding an American flag.

George Brinton McClellan

George Brinton McClellan, 1850