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Oval engraved portrait of a man in a military coat with epaulette, powdered hair, and cloudy landscape behind him.

Horatio Gates

Mezzotint portrait of a man in powdered wig and military uniform with epaulette and sash, with printed inscription below.

Robert Monckton

Thomas Hudson, 1750

Pink sheet music cover for The Little Duchess featuring a photograph of Anna Held in a large hat and flowing gown.

What Are the Wild Waves Saying?

Anna Held, 1900

Sheet music cover for The Two Roses with a photo of a woman in a lace gown, green art nouveau border and rose motifs.

There's Not a Thing I Wouldn't Do

Hand-colored lithograph of dancer Fanny Elssler in pink costume with black lace skirts, arms outstretched, on grass with flow

Fanny Elssler

John T, 1830

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with a small vignette of two embracing figures and ships below.

Marquis de Lafayette

Nicolas Maurin, 1770

Hand-colored print of General Washington in blue and gold uniform holding the Declaration of Independence, with a horse, cann

General Washington

Noël Le Mire, 1780

Hand-colored portrait of a standing Native American man in feathered headdress and fringed robe, holding a rifle.

Wa-na-ta

Charles Bird King, 1830

Circular hand-colored allegorical print of American independence with medallion portraits, a Native American figure, ships, a

Indépendence des États-Unis

Louis Roger, 1780

Engraving of a man descending steps from an altar toward a farm, with an eagle, shield, and fruit in the foreground.

General Washington's Resignation

Alexander Lawson, 1790

Sheet music cover for I Like My Old Home Town showing three photographic portraits of Harry Lauder in Scottish costume.

I Like My Old Home Town

Harry Lauder, 1920

Hand-colored lithograph of a dancer in a light blue costume and feathered hat before gabled houses, sheet music cover.

Fanny Elssler

Fanny Elssler, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph of a black crow with a man's face beside green reeds on rocky ground, titled Rice's Crow.

Rice's Crow

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Full-length portrait of a man in feathered headdress and fringed robe holding a feathered staff, in warm earth tones.

Mah-to-toh-pa

John M. McGahey, 1830

Engraving of a woman in white kneeling as two feathered men raise weapons beneath a large tree in a forest.

"The Columbiad" -- The Murder of Lucinda

Ankar Smith, 1800

Lithograph of the New Patent Office in Washington with pedestrians, a carriage, a longitudinal section and a floor plan.

Old Patent Office plan

Augustus Guy de Vaudricourt, 1830

Lithograph sheet music cover of the Hutchinson Family: one woman and three men in period dress before a hilly landscape.

Songs of the Hutchinson Family

Adoniram Judson Joseph Hutchinson, 1840

Sepia portrait of a uniformed officer on a black horse, with marching soldiers and mountains in the background.

W. Y. L. Wallace

William Hervey Lamme Wallace, 1860

Lithograph of Commodore Farragut in naval uniform holding a telescope on a ship deck, with rigging and sailing ships behind h

Commodore Farragut

David Glasgow Farragut, 1861

Purple sheet music cover for Tell Us Pretty Ladies with three oval portraits of Weber, Fields and Dave Warfield.

Tell Us Pretty Ladies

Joseph M. Weber, 1900

Engraving of the Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., with a colonnade, carriage and pedestrians, on a printed page.

Patent Office

U.S. Patent Office, 1850

Engraved page showing a proposed elevated railroad on Broadway with carriages and pedestrians, and a steamboat landing below.

Proposed Elevated Railroad Terrace for Broadway, New York

Samuel E. Brown, 1850

Engraving of the classical Patent Office building in Washington with a street of pedestrians and carriages, plus a woman by a

United States Patent-Office Department, Washington, D.C.

Alexander Gardner, 1860

Engraving of Caesar on a rearing white horse, sword raised, crossing the Rubicon with soldiers before a stormy sky.

"The Columbiad" -- Ceasar Passing the Rubicon

Robert Hartley Cromek, 1800

Hand-colored print of a bird with a bearded man's head perched on a branch, and a bearded head on an insect body below.

King Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Caricature of William Cullen Bryant clasping his hands in a farmyard beside a duck, rooster and pigs, on a Vanity Fair cover.

William Cullen Bryant

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co, 1860

Sketch of a uniformed officer gesturing to soldiers holding captured battle flags, from a Harper's Weekly page with text colu

General Custer Presenting Captured Battle Flags

Alfred R. Waud, 1861

Colorful poster with portraits of Lincoln and Grant, a central path toward the Capitol, and scenes of labor and education.

Out of Darkness Into Light

Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Hand-colored engraving of soldiers firing on a crowd in a Boston street, with smoke, fallen victims and printed verse below.

The Bloody Massacre

William F. Stratton, 1830

Engraving of Native American figures gathered around a bonfire on a riverbank, with smoke rising and canoes on the water.

Les Virginiens adorent le feu et se réjouissent après avoir été délivrés de quelque danger considerable

Bernard Picart, 1720