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Lithograph bust portrait of an older man with white hair and dark coat, labeled Harrison, against a dark background.

William Henry Harrison

Henry R. Robinson, 1840

Lithograph caricature of a man in a dress fleeing soldiers across a field, with a tent and speech bubbles behind him.

Jefferson and Varina Howell Davis

Jefferson Davis, 1860

Lithograph portrait of a curly-haired man in a dark coat and cravat, captioned Senator from Missouri.

Dr. Lewis Fields Linn

Charles Fenderich, 1830

Lithograph portrait of a mustached, goateed man in a military uniform with star-embroidered collar, labeled John Hunt Morgan.

John Hunt Morgan

J. L. Giles, 1861

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and cravat, hand resting on a book, titled John Trumbull Esq.

John Trumbull

Elkanah Tisdale, 1790

Lithographic bust portrait of a bearded man in a double-breasted naval uniform with anchor buttons, facing forward.

William Thomas Sampson

William Thomas Sampson, 1861

Engraved family portrait of a uniformed bearded man, a seated woman, and a young girl in a paneled interior with busts.

Stonewall Jackson and Family

William Sartain, 1861

Oval lithograph portrait of an older man in a dark coat and cravat, with the signature Z. Taylor below.

Zachary Taylor

Francis d' Avignon, 1840

Engraved portrait of Henry Clay in a dark coat and white cravat, seated beside a draped curtain.

Henry Clay

Jarvis Griggs Kellogg, 1830

Engraved portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a dark cloak holding a book, titled Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

Charles Carroll

James Barton Longacre, 1830

Engraved portrait of a man in period dress holding a scroll labeled Farmer's Letters, with a printed verse below.

John Dickinson

Paul Revere, 1770

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Sheet music cover with a stippled portrait of a mustached man in a suit with medals, titled In Memoriam L.M.G.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1870

Grayscale lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, captioned Hon. Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, 1850

Engraved portrait of Brig. Gen. John S. Williams in uniform on a Southern Illustrated News front page, with flags and cannon.

John Stuart Williams

W. B. Campbell, 1861

Lithograph portrait of a seated man beside a Chickering grand piano, with a bust and draped curtains in an ornate room.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Major & Knapp Sarony, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth standing in a blue military uniform with a sword, within an oval frame.

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

N. Thomas, 1860

Lithograph portrait of Major General W.S. Rosecrans in dark military uniform with fringed epaulettes and sash belt, 1861.

William Starke Rosecrans

Engraved bust portrait of General Lafayette with curly hair and draped garment, with dedicatory inscription below.

Marquis De Lafayette

Davide Testí, 1830

Caricature of a standing man in a brown checked suit and pince-nez, holding a cigarette, from a 1900 Vanity Fair print.

Finley Peter Dunne

Sir Leslie Mathew Ward, 1900

Etching of a plump pig lying on its side against crosshatched shadow, with a small wreath emblem below.

Stonewall Jackson

Frederick Volck, 1861

Henry Clay

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Oval lithograph portrait of a bearded man with a mustache in a dark suit and cravat, gazing to the side.

John C. Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge, 1861

Engraved portrait of an older man with a bald crown, dark coat and white collar, against a shadowy background.

William Dunlap

Max Rosenthal, 1890

Engraved oval portrait of Lieutenant General J. C. Pemberton on a Southern Illustrated News newspaper page, Richmond, 1863.

John Clifford Pemberton

A. Hurdle, 1861

Stipple engraving portrait of Edward Rutledge, a man in a dark coat and white cravat with powdered hair.

Edward Rutledge

James Earl, 1800

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in military uniform, framed by an ornate border with ships and cannon below.

Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox

Southern Illustrated News, 1861

Engraved portrait of a seated elderly man in a dark suit against a dark background, hands resting on his lap.

John Davison Rockefeller, Sr.

Timothy Cole, 1920

Engraved print of five oval portraits of Confederate generals in ornate scrolled frames, topped by an eagle, titled Generals

Generals Confederate Army No. 2

John Rogers, 1861

Lithographic bust portrait of a man with wavy hair in a dark coat, patterned waistcoat and cravat, turned to the left.

James Madison Porter

Charles Fenderich, 1840