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Pen-and-ink drawing of men unloading a boat on a riverbank with a mule, barrels, a crate and a man in a top hat.

Smuggling Medicines into the South

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Hand-colored lithograph of a wounded officer lying beside a horse, with two officers standing over him in a wooded battlefiel

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold

Samuel Ringgold, 1840

Engraving of men searching a schooner deck with axes and tools, with rigging and a wooden barrel behind them.

The Mayor and Police of Norfolk Searching Capt. Fountain’s Schooner

Edmund Birckhead Bensell, 1870

Pen drawing of mounted riders and foot soldiers crossing rocky desert ground, one rider holding a long pennant aloft.

Johnston Crossing the Desert to Join the Southern Army

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of a mounted officer amid fallen soldiers, a cannon, and an American flag under a palm tree.

The Death of Major Ringgold at the Battle of Palo Alto, May 8, 1946

Kelloggs & Thayer, 1840

Engraving of a battle scene with a cannon, a rearing horse and soldiers tending a wounded officer on the ground.

Palo Alto, Death of Major Ringgold

John C. McRae, 1840

Line drawing of drovers herding cattle and pigs past covered wagons along a wooded dirt road.

Return of a Raiding Party from Pennsylvania

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Colored print of the neoclassical Patent Office in Washington, D.C., with columns, a flag, and horse-drawn carriages on the s

Patent Office

Foster & Reynolds, 1920

Multi-panel engraving of Black Union soldiers and workers in camp, trenches, a battle scene, and daily labor tasks.

The Negro in the War - Various Employments of the Colored Men in the Federal Army

C. E. F. Hillen, 1860

Pen-and-ink drawing of a rider on a galloping horse leading cattle and mounted men past a fence and barn.

Jemison's Jayhawkers

Adalbert John Volck, 1860

Hand-coloured print of a large tipi encampment on a plain, with mounted riders, horses, dogs and flat-topped bluffs.

Encampment of Piekann Indians

Karl Bodmer, 1840

Colored lithograph of an orange fish with a caricatured man's head holding a money bag, with a sailing ship on calm water.

Gold Fish

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Line engraving of mounted cavalrymen charging through a camp past a sutler's stall with barrels and fleeing figures.

General Stewart's Raid to the White House

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Sepia illustration of the Patent Office building in Washington with columns, an American flag, and horse-drawn carriages on t

Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

Foster & Reynolds, 1920

Line drawing of the neoclassical Patent Office building with columns and a central portico, with a horse-drawn carriage on th

Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1840

Pen drawing of armed men and officers beside a kneeling woman, with a flag, cannon and smoke in the background.

Valiant Men "Dat Fite Mit Sigel"

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraving of a group of figures fleeing through rain across muddy ground toward a wooded area.

Twenty-Eight Fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland

Wilbur F. Osler, 1870

Hand-colored view of a Philadelphia street corner with a large arched-window building, market vendors, and pedestrians on cob

South East Corner of Third and Market Streets

William Russell Birch, 1790

Hand-colored postcard of the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., with columns, flags, a tram and early cars on the street

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

B. S. Reynolds Co, 1920

Colored print of Union soldiers storming a fort rampart under fire, with an American flag raised at the top and ships on the

Storming Fort Wagner

Robert Gould Shaw, 1861

Hand-colored engraving of a busy Philadelphia waterfront with a tall ship, dockworkers, barrels and a horse-drawn cart.

Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia

William Russell Birch, 1800

Engraving of workers harvesting and processing coffee beans on a tropical plantation beneath palms and rocky mountains.

Plantation Scene - Coffee

Felch & Riches, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of Black Union soldiers charging with flags through smoke at Fort Wagner, with Confederate troops fir

The Gallant Charge of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment

Robert Gould Shaw, 1861

Colored political cartoon of a man riding an elephant at the head of a marching band, with fallen figures on a hill behind.

And Teddy (Roosevelt) Comes Marching Home

Eugene Zimmerman, 1890

Lithograph of caricature rats with human faces clustered around a Government Crib while a man with a rifle looks on.

Fancied Security, or the Rats on a Bender

Louis Maurer, 1861

Colored lithograph of a parade celebrating the Fifteenth Amendment, framed by oval portraits, American flags, and genre scene

The Fifteenth Amendment

James Carter Beard, 1861

Seated bearded man in a tan jacket and dark waistcoat beside a blue vase and open book in a studio interior.

H. H. Richardson

Hubert von Herkomer, 1880

Seated bearded man in grey suit in a warm-toned studio with easel, palette, and Windsor chair, painted in 1900.

John George Brown

Gilbert Gaul, 1900

Painting of a walled garden courtyard with a family group in period dress, a dog, a cat, and a brick house under clouds.

West Family in the Studio Garden

Benjamin West, 1800

Oil portrait of a man in a dark suit seated beside a phonograph, with cylinders, tools and laboratory glassware on a green-dr

Thomas Alva Edison

Abraham Archibald Anderson, 1890