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Engraved memorial print with an oval portrait of George Washington, surrounded by allegorical figures, cannons and cherubs.

George Washington

Enoch G. Gridley, 1800

Hand-colored print of a uniformed officer with a sword beside a tree, with army tents and an American flag behind him.

Martin Robison Delany

Abraham Bogardus, 1850

Engraved full-length portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit beside a carved chair, table, books and draped curtain.

Ulysses S. Grant

John Chester Buttre, 1861

Engraving of Native figures offering fruit and baskets before a stone column, with a bearded European man and armed soldiers

The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Captain Ribault

Theodor de Bry, 1590

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a top hat and ruff collar, holding a scroll, with a ship in the frame.

Sir Thomas Smythe (Smith)

Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May, 1610

Colour print of an elderly bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark suit holding a pink cloak, in an arched frame.

Walt Whitman

Richard Shugg, 1870

Full-length portrait of a bearded naval officer on a ship deck, with a rowboat and American flag on the river behind him.

John L. Worden

John Lorimer Worden, 1860

Daniel Webster

William Henry Brown, 1840

Poster of a mustached rider in a fringed buckskin jacket and wide hat on a dappled grey horse, with trees behind.

"Buffalo Bill" Cody

Rosa Bonheur, 1910

Hand-colored print of a bearded naval officer in uniform on a deck, with a rowboat and fort on the river behind him.

John Lorimer Worden

John Lorimer Worden, 1860

Sheet music cover with central oval portrait of a man beside a small figure, flanked by four child medallions and floral bord

The Commodore Nutt Polka

? - Horace Waters, 1860

Caricature cartoon of a man skating on a frozen pond falling through cracked ice labeled Income Tax Amendment.

Retreat of Don Grover Quixote

Frederick Victor Gillam, 1890

Hand-colored engraved portrait of Stephen Van Rensselaer in blue uniform with red sash, holding a shako, before a river view.

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Thomas Gimbrede, 1800

Satirical lithograph of an elderly man in a fur-collared cloak locking a prison door, with hands gripping the barred window.

Andrew Jackson

Edward Williams Clay, 1820

Etching of a young woman in a sun hat holding a tennis racket beside a wooden fence and ivy-covered hedge.

Helen Wills Moody

Childe Hassam, 1920

Sitting Bull

Rudolf Cronau, 1880

Seated bearded man in work clothes on a wheelbarrow beside a shovel, pick and tin pan, with trees and hills behind.

Etienne Derbec

A. De Lattre, 1850

Hand-colored print of a frontiersman in buckskin raising his hat, holding a rifle, with three dogs in a wooded landscape.

Davy Crockett

C. Stuart, 1830

Engraved family portrait of General Grant with his family on horseback and pony, a dog, and the Capitol dome behind.

General Grant and His Family

Samuel Sartain, 1861

Engraved portrait of Major General Joseph Warren in a tricorn hat holding a musket, with a smoky battlefield behind him.

Joseph Warren

Etching of a bearded officer in uniform on a prancing horse, with a bare tree, smoke, and a distant cart in the landscape.

Le Général Grant

L. Mercier, 1861

Engraved portrait of a woman in a dark silk overdress and lace cuffs, beside flowering shrubs and a garden urn with a swan.

Mrs. George Washington

J. Rogers, 1850

Engraved portrait of a woman with curly hair and a striped shawl, leaning against a tree beside flowering shrubs.

Madᵉ. Genet

Cornelia Tappan Clinton Genet, 1850

Mezzotint portrait of Charles Lee in military uniform and tricorn hat beside a flag reading An Appeal to Heaven.

Charles Lee

Thomlinsen, 1770

Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich

J. Rogers, 1850

Monochrome print of a man in period dress in an oval frame, with a carved head and oak wreath above and PATRIAE PATER below.

George Washington, Patriae Pater

Rembrandt Peale, 1820

Lithograph of a uniformed man on a rearing grey horse, pointing forward before a smoky battlefield with soldiers.

General Harrison, the Washington of the West

Full-length engraved portrait of a man in naval uniform with a sword, leaning on rocks, with sailing ships at sea behind him.

William Carnegie

Jr J. Hibbert, 1800

Engraved page with a map of Pensacola Bay forts above a street scene of Montgomery, Alabama, with a domed state house.

Montgomery, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida

Harper's Weekly, 1860

Lithograph portrait of a man in a top hat and spectacles, standing before a building with shuttered windows and a signboard.

A Tribute to Worth by his Friends

Charles Fenderich, 1830