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Engraved bust portrait of Thomas Jefferson with white hair, dark coat and white cravat, against a stippled background.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Gimbrede, 1810

Sepia engraved portrait of an older man with a full mustache, dark suit and tie, against a dark background.

Grover Cleveland

Jacques Reich, 1900

Engraved portrait of a standing man in a dark suit holding gloves, with a table at his side.

Joseph Hodges Choate

Henry L. Wolf, 1900

Caricature of male figures tightroping over Salt River between North and South, with Abolition Rock and a Constitutional Brid

Political "Blondins" Crossing Salt River

Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Engraved portrait of a man in military uniform within an ornate border, with a signature and 'Maj. Gen. U.S. Army' caption.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Robert Patterson

Jr John Plumbe, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of Daniel Webster seated in a green chair beside books and an inkwell, with red drapery behind him.

Daniel Webster

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Engraved portrait of Dr. Benjamin Rush, a man with powdered hair and white cravat, in a dark coat, within a ruled border.

Benjamin Rush

Lithograph of officers gathered in a parlor with framed paintings and a mantelpiece, showing the McLean House surrender scene

The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant

Horace Porter, 1861

Hand-colored print of a man in a red turban and blue robe pointing to a chart of symbols while holding a pipe.

Se-quo-yah

R. T, 1830

Hand-colored print of a man in uniform, a seated woman and two young girls in a Victorian parlor with a bust and landscape pa

George McClellan and Family

George Brinton McClellan, 1860

Caricature of elegantly dressed men and women gambling at a green roulette table scattered with coins and banknotes.

J. P. Morgan

Georges Goursat, 1910

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark high-collared coat, with a handwritten quotation and signature "David Crockett" below.

David Crockett

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Lithograph of fourteen oval portrait medallions of men with names, titled Greenback-Labor Advocates of 1880.

Greenback-Labor Advocates of 1880

Nicholas Ford, 1880

Engraved oval portrait of Thomas Jefferson with powdered hair and dark coat, labeled T. Jefferson, on a lined background.

Thomas Jefferson

Enoch G. Gridley, 1800

Oval lithograph portrait of a man with curly hair and a cravat, labeled Hon. Rufus Choate, with signature.

Rufus Choate

John Adams Whipple, 1850

Lithograph portrait of a seated woman in a patterned gown beside a violin and carved chair, captioned Camilla Urso.

Camille Urso

Henry Atwell Thomas, 1860

Colored caricature of bearded James Abram Garfield with oversized head, brown jacket and green trousers, hands in pockets.

James Abram Garfield

Joseph Keppler, 1880

Sepia lithograph of tilted portrait cards of nineteenth-century American millionaires, with ships, a locomotive and signature

Millionaires of the U.S.

Samuel Jones Tilden, 1880

Engraved portrait of a seated man in dark period dress beside a desk and books, with classical columns and a landscape behind

James Monroe

Goodman & Piggot, 1810

Lithograph portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, captioned John Warren M.D.

Dr. John Warren

Rembrandt Peale, 1820

Engraved print of fifteen oval portraits of Confederate leaders under a banner reading Enemies of Our Union, with numbered ca

Enemies of our Union

Jefferson Davis, 1861

Pink poster with a line-drawn bearded man holding a hat, advertising Edwin Markham's article in The Saturday Evening Post.

Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham, 1890

Engraved portrait of Thomas Jefferson with white hair and dark coat against a stippled background.

Thomas Jefferson

David Edwin, 1800

Lithograph collage of political portraits, seated Lincoln, allegorical Justice and Liberty figures, and scenes of schooling a

The Republican Souvenir

James Gillespie Blaine, 1861

Sheet music cover with oval portraits of nine Confederate generals around the title Our Generals, Lee at center.

Our Generals

Joseph Eggleston Johnston, 1861

Political cartoon lithograph of a Democratic wagon pulled by donkeys heading toward a train labeled Equal Rights.

Progressive Democracy - Prospect of a Smash Up

Louis Maurer, 1861

Campaign print with oval portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin under an eagle and draped curtains, 1860.

Republican Banner for 1860

Cole Brothers, 1860

Lithographic oval portrait of a bearded man with wavy hair in a dark suit and bow tie, signed Henry W. Longfellow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Francis d' Avignon, 1850

Black and white oval lithographic portrait of a bearded man in a military uniform with stars on the collar.

Robert E. Lee

J. L. Giles, 1861

Caricature print of two men shaking hands beside a donkey and a stack of books labeled Life and Times of Thomas H. Benton.

Sad Parting Between Two Old Friends

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1840