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Sheet music cover with seven oval portraits of uniformed Confederate officers and ribbon banners listing names, titled In Mem

In Memory of the Confederate Dead

Albert Sidney Johnston, 1861

Lithographic bust portrait of a man in dark clerical dress with white bands, holding a book, captioned Rev. John T. Kirkland.

John Thornton Kirkland

Rembrandt Peale, 1830

Caricature of Peter Cooper beside a barrel marked SPECIE, on a Vanity Fair cover page from 1862.

Peter Cooper

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co, 1860

Charles Sumner

Leopold Grozelier, 1850

Lithographed sheet music cover with a bust portrait of Daniel Webster in a frock coat, titled Funeral March.

Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster, 1840

Engraved sheet with seven oval portraits of women in period dress arranged in a cluster on a pale background.

Representative Women

L. Schamer, 1870

Oval lithograph portrait of a seated man in a dark suit and bow tie, resting his arm on an upholstered chair.

William Winston Seaton

Leopold Grozelier, 1850

Oval lithograph portrait of a man in a double-breasted Confederate-style military uniform with epaulettes, mustache, and wavy

Robert E. Lee

Charles G. Crehen, 1861

Lithograph portrait of a man with tousled dark hair and a mustache, in a suit and tie, on tan paper.

Albert Einstein

Max Liebermann, 1920

Tonal lithograph portrait of a man in a suit and bow tie, labeled Booker T. Washington, against a shaded background.

Booker T. Washington

Elmer Chickering, 1900

Engraved full-length portrait of Daniel Webster standing beside a draped table, with a carved chair and statue behind him.

Daniel Webster

Joseph Andrews, 1850

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, 1900

Engraved oval portrait of Jonathan Edwards in a powdered wig and clerical bands, on a pedestal with inscription.

Jonathan Edwards

Amos Doolittle, 1780

Engraved oval portrait of a man with powdered hair and cravat, captioned Thos. Jefferson, published by C. Smith, New York.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, 1790

Caricature of William Lloyd Garrison smoking a long pipe, with fairies in the smoke, on a Vanity Fair cover from 1862.

William Lloyd Garrison

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co, 1860

Baron von Steuben

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1780

Oval lithograph portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat and bow tie, on a cream background.

Benjamin Silliman

Rudolf Hoffmann, 1850

Caricature of a bearded man with spectacles and wild hair standing in a long coat, on a Vanity Fair magazine cover.

Samuel F. B. Morse

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co, 1860

Charles Thomson

B. B. Ellis, 1780

William James

Alexander Robertson James

Oval lithograph portrait of an older man with curly gray hair, dark coat and white cravat, signed Edward Everett.

Edward Everett

Francis d' Avignon, 1850

Engraved portrait of an older man with curly white hair, dark coat and white cravat, signed John W. Francis.

John Wakefield Francis

William G. Jackman, 1860

Lithographic bust portrait of a man with dark swept-back hair, white collar and dark coat, with handwritten inscription below

David Crockett

Albert Newsam, 1830

Poster with a bearded man in a brown suit against orange, above text announcing a Harper's February article.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Edward Penfield, 1890

Hand-colored portrait print of a man in a blue military-style coat with gold epaulettes and a white cravat.

Push-ma-ta-ha

John William Gear, 1830

John Tyler

Albert Newsam, 1840

Lithograph portrait of Daniel Webster, seated in a dark coat and white cravat, hand resting on a chair arm.

Daniel Webster

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1830

Engraved oval portrait of a man with powdered hair and white cravat, labeled T. Jefferson, below the oval.

Thomas Jefferson

John Scoles, 1800

Colour lithograph bust portrait of an older man with white curly hair in a dark coat and high collar, titled Hon. Edward Ever

Edward Everett

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and cravat standing by a desk with a quill and inkwell, framed paintings behind h

William Potts Dewees

M. E. D. Brown, 1830