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Engraving of a man in a top hat reaching toward a seated woman in a railway car interior, with a seated observer at right.

Dry-goods Merchant Searching the Cars

FOY, 1870

Engraved page with two bust portraits: Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll on the left and actor Lester Wallack in an oval on the rig

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Hand-colored engraving of a formal White House-style reception where Native American delegates in feathered headdresses meet

Andrew Johnson: Indian Delegations at Washington - Presentation to the President

Alexander Gardner, 1860

Small pale card with the flourished script name D. B. Woodbury centered on it.

D. B. Woodbury business card

D. B. Woodbury, 1860

Engraving of a crowded 19th-century photographic gallery with framed portraits on the walls and visitors on tufted benches.

M.B. Brady's New Photographic Gallery in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper"

Albert Berghaus, 1860

Wood engraving of a horse-drawn carriage crowded with a woman, children and men, driving past onlookers on a town street.

Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses

Harriet Shepherd, 1870

Wood engraving of a woman and seven children gathered in a room, with a man in a hat standing at left beside a bundle.

Mother Escaping with Seven Children

Ann Maria Jackson, 1870

Black-and-white lithograph of the Lincoln family: seated man, standing man, woman in a long dress, a boy writing, and a small

Lincoln Family

Edward Valois, 1880

Engraving of a formal room where a white-haired man greets feathered Native American delegates before a crowd in period dress

The President of the United States Inducing the Hostile Tribes of the Pawnees and the Poncas to Shake Hands

founded Illustrated London News, 1850

Printed business card for Fredricks' Knickerbocker Family Portrait Gallery in New York, with ornate lettering and pricing.

Buisness card of Charles Fredricks

Charles DeForest Fredricks, 1880

Engraving of seated, chained men packed closely in a low ship's hold, with a printed explanatory caption below.

Engraving of Slaves in the Hold

John Warner Barber, 1840

Engraved key showing numbered portraits of senators in a Senate chamber as Daniel Webster addresses them, 1850.

Key to Webster Addresses the Senate

Daniel Webster, 1850

Engraving of a crowded ball in a large hall with coffered ceiling, dancing couples, and swagged American flags.

The Ball in Honor of President Lincoln in the Great Hall at the Patent Office in Washington

founded Illustrated London News, 1860

Cinqué

John Warner Barber, 1840

Hand-colored print of a mounted hunter with a bow chasing a charging bison across green prairie hills.

Hunting the Buffaloe

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph of a deathbed scene with a man in bed surrounded by mourning men in dark suits and uniforms.

Death of Abraham Lincoln

F. P. Whiting, 1860

James Covey

John Warner Barber, 1840

Lithograph of royal figures in a theatre box, a woman with a floral crown in front, men standing behind, draped curtains.

King Kamehameha and Queen Kamamalu

J. W. Gear, 1820

Engraving of men in a violent struggle inside a wooden barn, with hay and tools scattered around the floor.

Desperate Conflict in a Barn

Wesley Harris, 1870

Engraving of a man in a coat raising a knife toward a shirtless man in a room with a chair and table.

Breaking Him In

Theophilus Collins, 1870

Sepia lithograph of a Japanese conference room where uniformed Western officers and Japanese men sit on folding chairs.

Hakodadi Conference Room

Matthew Calbraith Perry, 1850

Lithograph of a seated bearded man reading with his family in a formal parlor, including a woman, children, and a standing yo

Abraham Lincoln and Family

Henry Atwell Thomas, 1860

Caricature lithograph of a man balanced on a rail labeled Republican Platform, carried by two men, titled The Rail Candidate.

Rail Candidate

Louis Maurer, 1860

John Quincy Adams

Napoleon Sarony, 1840

Colored lithograph of a fish with a caricatured man's head wearing spectacles and holding a money bag, with a ship on water.

Francis Martin Drexel

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Two oval engraved portraits of men in period dress printed side by side on facing magazine pages.

Franklin Pierce and William Rufus Devane King

Nichols & Hayes, 1850

Sepia group portrait of nine men in an ornate room with a framed Cornelius Vanderbilt portrait on the wall.

Kings of Wall Street

Root & Tinker, 1880

Oval lithograph of five standing men in 19th-century suits beside an upholstered chair, with a church spire in the background

Prominent Baptist Ministers

Albert Hoffman, 1850

Lithograph of two naval officers in uniform in oval medallions, with an anchor, rope block, and ship in the background.

David D. Porter and David G. Farragut

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Pen-and-ink caricature of a Roman-dressed figure and a crowned harpist labeled Harper's Weekly, by Thomas Nast.

Where there is an Evil

Thomas Nast, 1870