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Engraved Harper's Weekly page with a central masquerade ball scene and surrounding caricature portraits of public figures.

Grand Masquerade Ball

Thomas Nast, 1861

Engraved Declaration of Independence with oval portraits of Hancock, Washington and Jefferson, an eagle, and decorative drape

Declaration of Independence

James Barton Longacre, 1810

Colour circus poster of stilt-walking musicians in blue-curtained setting, with portrait medallions of Barnum, Bailey and Hut

P.T. Barnum, James Bailey and James Hutchinson

P. T. Barnum, 1890

Printed grid of oval engraved portraits of Confederate leaders and generals, each in a red ornamental frame with name labels.

Confederate Political Leaders and Generals

Charles Magnus, 1861

Lithograph of Robert E. Lee and Confederate generals posed before a military camp with tents and cavalry under a cloudy sky.

Robert E. Lee and his Generals

Wade Hampton III, 1861

Engraved political print with two portraits in oval frames, a central bust, eagle, flags and fruit border.

Democratic Candidates for President and Vice President, 1884

James R. Rice, 1880

Colourful poster for Denton's Illustrated Scientific Lectures with a portrait of William Denton and scenes of Pompeii, animal

William Denton

S. F. Denton, 1860

Hand-colored print of Confederate officers in blue uniforms posed before a flag, tent and encampment landscape.

Jefferson Davis and Generals

Leonidas Polk, 1861

Political caricature lithograph of men in gymnastic poses on bars and a horse, with speech bubbles and labels.

Political Gymnasium

Louis Maurer, 1861

Satirical lithograph of a giant man in a cloak directing a hose over railroad tracks, with a locomotive and steamship behind

The Statue Unveiled

James Fisk, 1860

Lithograph of a deathbed scene with an elderly man on a bed, mourners, a clergyman and a physician in period dress.

Death of General Lee

George Washington Custis Lee, 1861

Political cartoon of men reacting to a snarling black cat, Spirit of Discord, escaping a Republican Bag, 1860 lithograph.

Letting The Cat Out of The Bag

Louis Maurer, 1860

Political caricature of four men around a small figure in a hat, with boastful campaign text panels above.

Soliciting a Vote

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1850

Engraved portrait of a reclining man in a dark coat on a couch, with drapery, a table with books, and a landscape.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko

William Sharp, 1800

Engraved group portrait of nineteenth-century men gathered in a columned room around a table with a telegraph device.

Men of Progress

John Sartain, 1860

Satirical lithograph of a fly caught in a web, with spiders bearing human faces and two men watching at lower left.

Big Blue Bottle Fly in the Web

Edward Williams Clay, 1850

Political cartoon lithograph of large rolling balls labeled with state names crushing a man beneath them, with an eagle above

The Balls are Rolling - Clear the Track

Nathaniel Currier, 1850

Sepia engraving of many men in dark suits seated and standing in a Gothic-arched chamber with a carved balcony.

Distinguished Americans

Thomas Doney, 1850

Engraved political cartoon of two men in feathered costume beside tepees and a campaign placard, by Thomas Nast, 1880.

The Smiths Give a Great Deal of Trouble

Thomas Nast, 1880

Political caricature lithograph of men hunting a leaping buck, one aiming a rifle, with the White House in the distance.

The Great American Buck Hunt of 1856

Nathaniel Currier, 1861

Colored caricature of Washington with a large shadow over the White House lawn, labeled Rough Rider Roosevelt, and caricature

Is it Only a Shadow?

Grant E. Hamilton, 1861

Lithograph of a group of men at a literary party in a room with columns, bookshelves and a wall bust, c. 1860.

Our Great Authors

Thomas S. Sinclair, 1860

Engraved print with two oval profiles: a black silhouette of a man with tied hair beside a line drawing of an older man.

George Washington and Benjamin Franklin

Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1780

Hand-colored print of three-tier bunks and rifle racks in the Patent Office, with glass cabinets along the left wall.

Sleeping-Bunks of the First Rhode Island Regiment, at the Patent Office, Washington

U.S. Patent Office, 1860

Lithograph of a seated bearded man and family group in a parlor, with oval portraits and a domed building on the wall.

Benjamin Harrison and Family

Benjamin Harrison, 1880

Lithographic poster of five performers in exaggerated costumes around a wooden table, with banners reading Great Musical Dram

Out of Bondage

Joseph Edward Baker, 1870

Engraving of a crowded legislative chamber with men in period dress, wigs and Windsor chairs beneath classical columns.

Congress Voting Independence

Edward Savage, 1800

J. A. M. Whistler

Giovanni Boldini, 1890

Hand-colored print of Sauk and Fox men in feathered headdresses performing a war dance, with seated drummers at left.

War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes

Edward Corbould, 1830

Engraved interior of Independence Hall with a marble statue, portrait paintings, the Liberty Bell, and visitors in period dre

Independence Hall

John Neagle, 1850

Colour lithograph caricature of a judge gesturing at a crowd of women and men with satirical placards, 1890.

Find the Group in Favor of Woman's Suffrage

Grant E. Hamilton, 1890

Engraved portraits of Benjamin F. Butler and Alexander H. Stephens with name captions on a tan page, numbered 12.

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Grabeau

John Warner Barber, 1840

Engraving of a man in a ruffled shirt rising from an open wooden chest, titled Escaping in a Chest, page 283.

Lear Green Escaping in a Chest

Lear Green, 1870

Colored cartoon of Uncle Sam and John Bull striding through sugarcane scattering books and papers labeled civilization and ed

The Two Great Missioners of Civilization

Frederick Victor Gillam, 1890

Engraved 1840 map of part of Western Africa showing rivers, coastline, place names and a longitude and latitude grid.

Map of Guinea

John Warner Barber, 1840

Blue printed business card advertising L. H. Griffin's Ambrotype Rooms at 268 Washington Street, Boston, with prices.

Business card for L. H. Griffin's Ambrotype Rooms

L. H. Griffin, 1850

Engraved east view of Philadelphia from the river, with spires, ships and rowboats, and insets of the State House and Battery

The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania

George Heap, 1760

Lithograph of General Grant seated with a young boy on his lap, a family group around a table with an open book.

General Grant and Family

Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1861

Colored caricature of men in tutus and ballet slippers rehearsing on stage while a top-hatted conductor watches.

Full Dress Rehearsal of the Grand Presidential Corps de Ballet

Charles Kendrick, 1861

Colored caricature of President Garfield seated at a table with his cabinet members, printed papers and a bell.

President Garfield and His Cabinet

Joseph Keppler, 1861

Sepia lithograph group portrait of President Grover Cleveland and eight cabinet members in period dress, names printed below.

Cleveland and his Cabinet

Grover Cleveland, 1861

Political cartoon of caricatured men over newspapers, with a bowing figure holding a hat and a Republican platform banner.

Peevish School Boys, Worthless of Such Honor

Thomas Nast, 1861

Lithograph caricature of a cane attack on a seated man beside a desk, with onlookers and a Kansas document on the floor.

Southern Chivalry: Argument Versus Club's

John L. Magee, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of two oval portraits in laurel wreaths: Zachary Taylor in uniform and Millard Fillmore in a dark coa

Zachary Taylor, People's Candidate for President

Nathaniel Currier, 1840