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Lithographic portrait of a man with wavy hair in a high collar and double-breasted coat, with printed caption below.

Spencer Houghton Cone

Spencer Houghton Cone, 1830

Lithograph portrait of Major General Zachary Taylor in military uniform, with handwritten letter and signatures below.

Zachary Taylor

Albert Newsam, 1840

Satirical Puck cover by Opper showing a reclining man with chained dogs labeled Congress and Legislature and a prostrate eagl

William Henry Vanderbilt

Frederick Burr Opper, 1880

Portrait of an elderly bespectacled man with white beard and hair, wearing a dark coat with a gold watch chain.

Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley, 1860

Wood engraving of a bearded man seated on a stool writing a Republican slate on an easel board, from Harper's Weekly.

Continue that I Broached in Jest

Thomas Nast, 1870

Paul I

J. E. Mansfield, 1820

Harlow Niles Higinbotham

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Lithograph of a standing man in a long coat, with a handwritten signature and caption 'The Author of The Sketch Book' below.

Washington Irving

Daniel Maclise, 1830

Mezzotint portrait of the Reverend James Honyman seated at a table with a book, wearing clerical gown and bands.

James Honyman

Samuel Okey, 1770

Stonewall Jackson

Daniel T. Cowell, 1861

Stippled black-and-white portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with printed caption below.

John Macpherson Berrien

Albert Newsam, 1820

Henry Laurens

B. B. Ellis, 1780

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark double-breasted coat and high white collar, titled C. C. Clay, Senator from Alabama.

Clement Comer Clay

Charles Fenderich, 1830

Etching of Washington Irving seated on a rock in a top hat, with a dog beside him, signed with his name below.

Washington Irving

James David Smillie, 1850

Engraved print of Baron Trenck standing chained in a stone dungeon, with an arched frame and a water jug at his feet.

Frederich Von Trenck

James Thackara, 1780

Engraved bust portrait of a man in a dark military uniform with star collar insignia, within a gold-bordered frame.

Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg, 1861

Napoleon Bonaparte

Joel Allen, 1790

Hand-colored portrait print of a seated man in a dark suit and bow tie with his hand on an open book.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Hollick

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Sepia engraved portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, with handwritten note and small inset portrait below.

Ulysses S. Grant

Jacques Reich, 1861

Engraved bust portrait of a mustached man in a dark suit, signed by Gustav Kruell in the lower right corner.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Gustav Kruell, 1890

Oval lithograph portrait of a bearded man with thick hair in a dark overcoat, signed John Brown below.

John Brown

Thomas Murphy Johnston, 1850

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a dark suit and bow tie, captioned Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United Sta

Andrew Johnson

John Sartain, 1860

Engraved oval bust portrait of a man with wavy hair on the blue cover of The Whig Almanac for 1849.

Zachary Taylor

Benjamin F. Childs, 1840

Grayscale lithograph portrait of a man with curled powdered hair, dark coat and white cravat, labeled John Adams.

John Adams

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1820

Grayscale lithographic portrait of a seated man in a dark double-breasted jacket and bow tie, captioned Alexander H. Stephens

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

J. L. Giles, 1860

Lithograph of General Tom Thumb, a small child in a suit, standing beside books, a quill, a bottle and glassware.

General Tom Thumb

Charles Baugniet, 1840

Engraved oval portrait of a clergyman in dark robes and white bands collar, with inscription below naming Reverend John Clark

John Clarke

Samuel Hill, 1790

Hand-colored print of a rearing saddled horse above a fallen soldier in uniform beside a sword and tree.

Death of General Pike at L. York

Oliver Tarbell Eddy, 1800

Wood engraving page from the Illustrated London News showing a roadside signing scene and a farewell with mounted soldiers.

Jefferson Davis and Judah Philip Benjamin

Frank Vizetelly, 1860

Jacob Henry Schiff

Hermann Struck, 1910