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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

Pen-and-ink interior scene of figures in a room with an open door showing mounted riders outside, a child on the floor, and a

Slaves Concealing Their Master from a Search Party

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Caricature of elegantly dressed men and women gambling at a green roulette table scattered with coins and banknotes.

J. P. Morgan

Georges Goursat, 1910

Sepia lithograph of tilted portrait cards of nineteenth-century American millionaires, with ships, a locomotive and signature

Millionaires of the U.S.

Samuel Jones Tilden, 1880

Engraved scene of a crowd on a wooden platform, a worker placing a bell among others, and church spires behind.

Offering of Bells to be Cast into Cannon

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Lithograph collage of political portraits, seated Lincoln, allegorical Justice and Liberty figures, and scenes of schooling a

The Republican Souvenir

James Gillespie Blaine, 1861

Political cartoon lithograph of a Democratic wagon pulled by donkeys heading toward a train labeled Equal Rights.

Progressive Democracy - Prospect of a Smash Up

Louis Maurer, 1861

Ink caricature of a bearded rider on a rearing horse beside a signpost to Great Bethel, with a caption below.

General Bombastes as Ubiquitous after Battle of Great Bethel

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Caricature print of two men shaking hands beside a donkey and a stack of books labeled Life and Times of Thomas H. Benton.

Sad Parting Between Two Old Friends

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1840

Lithograph portraits of Daniel Webster and Edward Everett in oval frames, beneath a draped curtain with a tassel.

Daniel Webster and Edward Everett

Joseph Edward Baker, 1860

Line engraving of soldiers searching a bedroom while an officer points at a woman holding a child by a curtain.

Searching For Arms

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Lithograph of a mounted officer in plumed hat on a horse, with cavalry and artillery in a battlefield behind him.

Franz Sigel

Feodor Fuchs, 1861

Hand-colored print of a deathbed scene with mourners in period dress, a draped bed, and a portrait on the wall above.

Death of Harrison

Henry R. Robinson, 1840

Pen drawing of a man dozing in a rocking chair with feet on a table, a winged figure above him, captioned as a satire on Gene

General B. Capturing Big Bethel

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Lithograph of Daniel Webster standing and addressing a crowded Senate chamber with seated senators and spectators in the gall

Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1860

Lithograph of men gathered around a bed in a dim room, a figure lying on the bed, mourners in dark suits and a uniform.

Last Moments of President Lincoln

Gideon Welles, 1861

Pen-and-ink caricature of three men in a tavern with a bar, bottles, and a sword, titled Ye Mass, Military Academy.

Ye Mass, Military Academy

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraved allegory of Liberty holding a Thomas Jefferson portrait, with a Washington medallion and sixteen stars in a circular

Thomas Jefferson

John Norman, 1800

Black and white lithograph of James Garfield and family: seated older woman, bearded man, seated wife and standing children.

James Garfield and Family

James Abram Garfield, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of a crowded street with soldiers, civilians, a raised banner and a proclamation poster on a brick wall.

Election in Baltimore, November, 1862

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Engraved group portrait titled Union showing seated and standing men around a bust, a Constitution scroll, an allegorical fig

Union

Henry S. Sadd, 1861

Political caricature lithograph: a standing man gestures toward a sleeping seated man at a desk, with a crowd of faces behind

Where's My Thunder

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1840

Line drawing of men trading banknotes outside a Brokers Office, with a sign offering counterfeit Confederate notes for sale.

Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the City of Brotherly Love

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Hand-colored print of uniformed Confederate officers posed in a field beside a flag, tent and cannon, with soldiers in the di

Jefferson Davis and His Generals

William Joseph Hardee, 1861

Engraved view of the US Senate Chamber with seated senators, a domed ceiling, chandelier, and spectators in the gallery.

United States Senate Chamber

Thomas Doney, 1840

Lithograph titled Reconstruction: an eagle with flag on a columned rotunda map, portrait medallions above, crowds and a town

Reconstruction

J. L. Giles, 1861

Steel engraving of three seated men in formal dress before a paneled wall, one in academic robes with an open book.

Commencement Day, Yale College

John Sartain, 1860

Lithograph of a deathbed scene with mourners in a dim room, a bearded man in bed, and a woman in a light gown weeping.

The Death-Bed of the Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, 1860

Printed chart of single and double hand alphabet signs with portraits, a building engraving, and explanatory text.

Laura Dewey Bridgeman

C. A. Alvord, 1850

Colored lithograph of a parade celebrating the Fifteenth Amendment, framed by portraits and scenes of voting and daily life.

The Fifteenth Amendment

Thomas Kelly, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of a deathbed scene with mourners in a room with red and green bed curtains.

Death of Harrison

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Lithograph of rows of men in dark suits below an allegorical woman crowning a kneeling woman, with flags and state seals.

Coronation of Womanhood

Susan B. Anthony, 1880

Sepia lithograph of a Victorian family group in a parlor, with a bearded seated man, a woman, children, and an older woman re

James Garfield and Family

Samuel S. Frizzell, 1880