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Hand-colored lithograph portrait of Major General John A. Logan in a blue uniform with gold buttons and star shoulder straps.

John Alexander Logan

John Alexander Logan, 1861

Lithographic bust portrait of a man with wavy hair in a dark coat and cravat, signed by Charles Fenderich.

Richard Montgomery Young

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Engraved print of a uniformed officer standing beside a grey horse in a forested landscape, sword at his side.

George Brinton McClellan

Chapin & Stephens, 1860

Caricature of two men, one in a brown robe with halo and wings holding kerosene oil and a penny, one in a dark suit.

John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Albert Levering, 1900

Lithographic bust portrait of a man with tousled hair in a dark coat and white cravat, labeled Lafayette.

Marquis De Lafayette

Nicolas Maurin, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of a seated man in a grey coat holding an open book, with red curtain and green drapery behi

Martin Van Buren

Daniel Wright Kellogg, 1830

Hand-colored print of General Zachary Taylor on a white horse in military dress, with troops in the distant landscape.

Zachary Taylor

H. Bucholzer, 1840

Engraved sketch of Thaddeus Stevens seated in a chair carried by two assistants beside a stone column, from a newspaper page.

Thaddeus Stevens Being Conveyed to the House of Representatives

James Early Taylor, 1860

Punch cartoon of two top-hatted men walking with a feathered-hat soldier behind, captioned Very Probable, 1864.

Jefferson Davis

Sir John Tenniel, 1860

Lithograph portrait of a balding man with curled hair in a dark coat and white cravat, turned three-quarters to the left.

Abbott Lawrence

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Engraved portrait of George Washington with powdered hair, dark coat and white cravat, within a ruled border.

George Washington

Thomas Holloway, 1790

Lithographic bust portrait of an older man with white hair, dark coat and white cravat, captioned James Lloyd, M.D.

James Lloyd

Rembrandt Peale, 1820

Marquis de Lafayette

Charles François Gabriel Levachez, 1790

Etched portrait of a seated young girl with long hair in an armchair, hands folded, inscribed 'Annie' below.

Annie Harriet Haden

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Engraved oval portrait of a man with mustache in a double-breasted military coat, titled P.G.T. Beauregard.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

William Sartain, 1861

Engraved portrait of George Washington in military uniform beside a tent opening, with an eagle emblem and inscription below.

George Washington

John Galland, 1800

Etching of a man with wavy hair and mustache in an oval frame topped by drapery, by Edouard Manet.

Edgar Allan Poe

Édouard Manet, 1880

Lithograph portrait of John C. Spencer, Secretary of the Treasury, shown in dark coat and cravat, turned three-quarters.

John Canfield Spencer

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell, 1900

Lithograph of a standing man in a dark coat gesturing with papers in a draped room with an eagle banner and flag.

Richard Mentor Johnson

A. A. Hoffay, 1830

John Charles Fremont

George Edward Perine, 1861

Engraved bust portrait of a young man in a dark uniform with a sash and medals, captioned Alphonse XII, Roi d'Espagne.

King Alphonse XII

August Weger, 1900

Advertising poster showing a man in a suit beside a brass phonograph with a cylinder, titled Edison's Phonograph.

Edison's Phonograph

Alfred S. Seer Engraver, 1870

Hand-colored print of Abraham Lincoln standing beside books and red drapery, with a window and trees behind him.

Abraham Lincoln

Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning, 1850

Lithograph of a man in fringed buckskin costume and feathered hat holding a rifle, captioned Mr Hackett as Nimrod Wild-fire.

James Henry Hackett

Edward Williams Clay, 1830

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Doney, 1860

Sepia lithograph portrait of a bald, bespectacled man with a full beard in a dark coat and cravat, captioned Hon. Horace Gree

Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley, 1870

Pencil drawing of a man with curled hair and high white cravat, labeled Le Gl Lafayette beneath the figure.

Marquis De Lafayette

Hand-colored lithograph of Thomas Wilson Dorr seated in a gilded chair, holding a rolled Constitution of Rhode Island.

Thomas Wilson Dorr

James S. Baillie, 1840

Etched portrait of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat smoking a pipe and holding a paper, with his back to a wooden chair.

Frank Duveneck

William Unger, 1870