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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

Hand-coloured engraving of a family group in an interior: a seated woman with an infant, a boy, and three men.

Benjamin West and Family

George & Johan Facius, 1770

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

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

Hand-colored print of a standing bearded man in a dark suit beside a red chair, column and draped curtains, with a quotation

Abraham Lincoln

William Marsh, 1860

Lithograph of seven oval portraits of men arranged in a circle within ornate scroll border, titled American Prohibitionists.

American Prohibitionists

Leopold Grozelier, 1850

Engraved portrait of a dark-haired man above a printed Civil War era song sheet with two columns of verse.

Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis, 1860

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in formal dress with a star medal on his lapel, captioned Kalakaua I, King of the Hawaiian

Kalakaua I

King David Kalakaua

Sepia lithograph portrait of a bearded, balding man in a military uniform with star collar insignia, labeled Gen. R. S. Ewell

Richard Stoddert Ewell

J. L. Giles, 1861

Lithograph portrait of William J. Le Moyne surrounded by seven vignettes of Dickens characters in arched frames with foliate

William J. Le Moyne

Joseph Edward Baker, 1880

Engraved oval portrait of a man in armour, framed by drapery, laurel, doves and a council scene below.

William II

Pieter Tanjé, 1740

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a military uniform with a high collar and three stars, signed Albert Sidney Johnston.

Albert Sidney Johnston

George Edward Perine, 1861

Lithographic portrait of a bearded man in a dark overcoat and patterned waistcoat, by Charles Fenderich.

Le Grand Guerry Capers

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Engraved oval portrait of Thaddeus Stevens in dark suit and bow tie, framed by a laurel wreath, with name at bottom.

Thaddeus Stevens

John Sartain, 1860

Engraved portrait of seated Washington Allston in a fur-collared coat, holding a drawing compass beside paper.

Washington Allston

John Sartain, 1840

Engraved cartoon of a crowned figure on a Tammany throne flanked by armed attendants, titled The Power Behind the Throne.

The Tammany King-dom/ The Tammany Ring-dom

Thomas Nast, 1870

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark high-collared coat and cravat, captioned Senator from Kentucky.

John Jordan Crittenden

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Lithographic portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit beside a table with a scroll reading LIBERTY, FREEDOM TO ALL.

John Brown

Anton Hohenstein, 1860

1900 campaign poster with oval portrait of W.J. Bryan, flags, Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty and an octopus labeled Trusts.

William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan, 1900

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a dark military uniform with buttons and a collar star, captioned J.E.B. Stuart.

Jeb Stuart

J. L. Giles, 1861