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Engraved bust portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with caption naming Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treas

Samuel Delucenna Ingham

James Barton Longacre, 1830

Sheet music cover with lithograph portrait of a man resting his head on his hand, song title list below.

Stephen Collins Foster

Stephen Collins Foster, 1880

Etched portrait of a man in a suit and striped tie, head turned slightly, with a handwritten signature below.

Calvin Coolidge

Dwight Case Sturges, 1920

Fanny Lily Gypsy Davenport

Henry Atwell Thomas, 1880

Engraved portrait of a woman in a veil and jewelled pendant, framed by a floral garland with a cherub below.

Joanna

Jonas Suiderhoef, 1700

Engraved bust portrait of Major General Andrew Jackson in a dark military uniform with epaulettes, against clouds.

Andrew Jackson

Peter Maverick, 1810

Silas Deane

Burnet Reading, 1780

Lithograph portrait of a seated man with wavy hair, white cravat and book, with printed name Rev. James Shrigley below.

James Shrigley

Charles Fenderich, 1840

John Alexander Logan

Samuel S. Frizzell, 1861

Oval lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a double-breasted military uniform with star collar insignia.

Stonewall Jackson

Thomas Jonathan Jackson, 1861

Black and white lithographic portrait of a young man in a dark coat, waistcoat and cravat, signed Müller.

Charles Müller

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Mary Anderson

A. L. Plummer, 1870

Engraved bust portrait of a man with powdered hair in a dark military uniform with epaulettes and ruffled cravat.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Cornelius Tiebout, 1810

Napoleon Sarony Self-Portrait

Napoleon Sarony, 1860

Hand-colored print portrait of a man with shaved head, red headband, feather, beaded necklace and green cloak.

Thayendanegea

R. T, 1830

Engraved bust portrait of a man in a dark naval uniform with braided epaulettes, labeled Commodore Stephen Decatur.

Stephen Decatur

Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May, 1820

William Clyde Fitch

Max Beerbohm, 1890

Engraved portrait of Thomas Paine, a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, beside a small ship model.

Thomas Paine

William Sharp, 1790

Lithograph portrait of a seated older man with gray hair, dark coat, white cravat, hands clasped, labeled Sam Houston.

Samuel Houston

Francis d' Avignon, 1840

Lithographic bust portrait of an older man with powdered hair and a frilled white cravat, captioned Samuel Danforth M.D.

Samuel Danforth

Rembrandt Peale, 1820

Black-and-white lithographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln in a dark jacket and bow tie, gazing to the side.

Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Edward Baker, 1860

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

Justus 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