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Hand-colored lithograph of an officer kneeling beside his fallen white horse, with a cannon and soldiers in battle behind.

Samuel Ringgold

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Mezzotint portrait of a man in naval uniform with a telescope, with warships firing in smoke behind him at sea.

John Paul Jones

Johann Elias Haid, 1770

Engraved oval portrait of Henry Clay in a dark coat and cravat, framed by an oak leaf wreath, with clouds and a tree behind h

Henry Clay

Jr William Warner, 1840

Lithograph of a mounted officer in blue uniform on a white horse, with aides and an American flag behind him.

George Brinton McClellan

Joseph Edward Baker, 1860

Engraved group portrait of Japanese embassy members in traditional dress with swords, seated and standing with Western attend

The Japanese Embassy and their Attendants

Mathew B. Brady, 1860

Engraved portrait of a standing Native American man in fringed robe, feathered headdress and beaded leggings, holding a staff

Péhriska-Rúhpa (Two Ravens)

Paul Legrand, 1840

Sepia portrait of a mustached officer in uniform with a horse, sword, flag and army tents behind him.

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Sheet music cover with an oval portrait of President Harrison above an engraving of a domed building and crowd.

Grand Inauguration March

Albert Gallatin, 1830

Colored print of a bearded fireman in a leather helmet pulling a brass-trimmed hand-drawn fire engine down a street.

Nathaniel Currier

Louis Maurer, 1850

Black and white lithograph of a standing man in a cape coat holding a top hat and cane, with a rural landscape behind him.

Andrew Jackson

John Henry Bufford, 1830

Sepia lithograph of a uniformed man on a rearing horse, holding a sword, with a hilly landscape below.

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson, 1820

Hand-colored print of a standing officer in blue coat and white wig with horse, servant, and soldiers on a parade ground behi

Marquis De Lafayette

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1790

Oval lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat, with a scrolled border and sheet music title text below.

Thomas Alexander Scott

Thomas Alexander Scott, 1870

Engraved portrait of Jacob Brown in military dress uniform with epaulettes, holding a rolled paper, with his signature below.

Jacob Jennings Brown

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Engraved portrait of Henry Clay standing beside a flag, globe, and column, with a farm scene and ship behind him.

Henry Clay

John Sartain, 1840

Etching of a mounted trumpeter charging toward a water pump, with soldiers, flags and a crouched figure beside it.

Conquest of Ye Pump

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Stipple engraving of Meriwether Lewis in fringed buckskin and fur cap, holding a rifle before mountains.

Meriwether Lewis

William Strickland, 1810

Two-panel political cartoon by Thomas Nast: a bowing man beside a Jeff Davis bail sign, and a muddy-booted man facing a newsp

What I Know About Horace Greeley

Thomas Nast, 1861

Harper's Weekly page with two officer portraits above text and a wood engraving of soldiers seated among white tents in camp.

Stonewall Jackson

Frank Vizetelly, 1861

Multi-panel colored cartoon showing a man struggling with housekeeping, with a central scene of a man waving farewell to a wo

The Boy Stands on the Burning Deck

Grant E. Hamilton, 1890

Joel Roberts Poinsett

William W. Bannerman, 1830

Lithographic portrait of a bearded officer in uniform with epaulettes and sword, a plumed hat, and a battle scene behind him.

General Nathaniel Lyon

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Sheet music cover with a lithographed bust portrait of a man in a dark coat and cravat, framed by ornate scrolled lettering.

Our First President Quickstep

Mathew B. Brady, 1860

Chromolithograph of General Ulysses S. Grant in blue uniform with flag, columned building, and mounted soldiers behind him.

Ulysses S. Grant

Samuel S. Frizzell, 1861

Hand-colored print of a shirtless boxer in orange breeches and white stockings, fists raised, on a green field with a crowd b

Tom Molineaux

Robert D. Dighton, 1810

Lithograph portrait of a uniformed officer with sword, a horse, soldiers, tents and an American flag behind him.

Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Caricature drawing of a ship labeled Experiment, with Andrew Jackson at the stern and idle sailors on deck.

Experiment in Full Operation

Anthony Imbert, 1820

Sheet music cover with an oval portrait of a man in a dark coat, framed by a pitcher-shaped border with comic vignettes.

Pete Morris

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Engraving of a caricatured man in spectacles clinging to a wild horse leaping across a rocky chasm above a skull.

Modern Mazeppa

Thomas Nast, 1870

Sepia lithograph of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson on a pedestal, with well-dressed people strolling in a park.

Andrew Jackson

Jr. Benjamin F. Smith, 1850