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Engraved portrait of Samuel Adams in an oval frame, flanked by allegorical figures, a trumpeting angel, and a Magna Charta sc

Samuel Adams

Paul Revere, 1770

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, turned to the left, with the caption LAFAYETTE below.

Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis de Lafayette, 1810

Engraved portrait of J.W. MacKay, a seated man with a mustache holding a cigar, after Alex. Cabanel.

John William MacKay

Achille Jacquet, 1870

Engraved oval portrait of Benjamin Franklin in a fur-collared cloak, with a French inscription on a pedestal below.

Benjamin Franklin

Juste Chevillet, 1770

Lithograph portrait of William Rawle, a bespectacled older man with curly white hair in a dark coat and white cravat.

William Rawle

Albert Newsam, 1830

Engraved oval portrait of Commodore Oliver H. Perry in naval uniform with epaulettes, holding a telescope, under a laurel wre

Oliver Hazard Perry

Thomas Gimbrede, 1810

Lithograph portrait of Charles Stewart Todd in a military uniform with fur epaulettes and embroidered collar.

Charles Stewart Todd

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Joseph Leiter

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Lithographic portrait of a middle-aged man in a dark coat and white cravat, with signature and caption below.

John Mattocks

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Lithograph portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat and white cravat, captioned Gen. William Hull.

William Hull

Sara Ann Freeman Clarke, 1820

Benjamin Franklin

John Scoles, 1790

Hand-colored printed sheet with an oval portrait of a bearded officer in uniform, flanked by American flags, with verse below

Ulysses S. Grant

Charles Magnus, 1861

Sepia lithograph portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and cravat, within an oval vignette, titled Franklin Pierce.

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce, 1840

Lithograph of Lincoln's coffin lying in state beneath draped black curtains, with his bust above and mourners standing around

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, 1860

Engraved political broadside showing a seated man in a chair surrounded by standing men, with satirical verse printed below.

Great Cry and Little Wool

Abraham Lincoln, 1860

Engraved portrait of a seated woman in a lace shawl beside a flower vase, with the signature Jenny Lind below.

Jenny Lind

John Sartain, 1850

Lithographic campaign song sheet with an oval portrait of a bearded man, surrounded by trees, mountains, a rider and a buffal

There is the White House Yonder

Samuel Root, 1861

Charles IV and Louisa Maria

Robert Cooper, 1810

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark suit and tie, by Jacques Reich, 1890.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Jacques Reich, 1890

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded Union general in a dark military uniform, labeled Major Gen. Geo. H. Thomas.

George Henry Thomas

William Sartain, 1861

Samuel Ludvigh

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Poster of a seated man reading beside a black and white cat, with a calendar and the text HARPER'S FEBRUARY below.

Edward Penfield Self-Portrait

Edward Penfield, 1890

Engraved portrait of Captain Isaac Hull in naval uniform, framed by a laurel wreath and a ribbon reading First in Victory, Fi

Isaac Hull

William Strickland, 1800

Engraved portrait of an elderly clergyman in embroidered stole and pectoral cross, hand resting on a book, 1810.

Reverend John Carroll

Leney & Tanner, 1810

Black-and-white lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and high collar, with caption naming him a senator from New York.

Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge

Charles Fenderich, 1830

Sheet music cover with lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and bow tie, titled President Johnson's Grand Union March.

President Johnson's Grand Union March

Louis Nelke, 1860

Engraved allegorical print of an oval portrait of Nathanael Greene held by a robed figure and a warrior, with a child, cannon

Nathanael Greene

Juste Chevillet, 1770

Engraved portrait of a man in a cravat within an ornate foliate border with an eagle at the top, labeled Rev. Dr. Dewey.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Orville Dewey

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a double-breasted military uniform with star collar insignia, titled Joseph E. Johnst

Joseph Eggleston Johnston

J. L. Giles, 1861

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat seated beside a drawing board, signed John Sartain.

John Sartain Self-Portrait

John Sartain, 1860