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Engraved cartoon of a large elephant with a ballot box and banner, trampling a tiger with human heads, from Harper's Weekly.

The Elephant Walks Around

Thomas Nast, 1870

Engraved caricature of a bearded man in an apron polishing a boot, with a woman watching in a doorway labeled Conkling & Plat

Out-"Shining" Everybody In Humiliation at Albany

Thomas Nast, 1880

Oval engraved portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat and cravat, captioned C. Colden, Esq.

Cadwallader Colden

John Scoles, 1800

Aaron Burr

Enoch G. Gridley, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, in armor with lace collar, within an ornate frame.

George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland

Robert Vaughan, 1610

Engraved oval portrait of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, with lace collar, in ornamental cartouche.

Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke

Simon de Passe, 1610

Portrait of a man in a red military coat with gold braid and powdered wig, standing before a landscape, inscribed below.

Robert Monckton

James McArdell, 1770

Mezzotint portrait of a man in a wig and period coat, pointing to ships in a harbor beside a table with charts.

William Shirley

Peter Pelham, 1740

Oval mezzotint portrait of a man in a robe with folded arms, with a German caption below naming him King of the Volkeren rive

E. Tow O Koam Coning van de Rivier Volkeren

Pieter Schenk, 1710

John Bard

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1820

Black and white engraved portrait of a man with curly hair, dark jacket and bow tie, captioned Peter Still, The Kidnapped and

Peter Still, The Kidnapped and Ransomed

Peter Still, 1870

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of James Buchanan, a gray-haired man in dark coat and white cravat before red drapery.

James Buchanan

Nathaniel Currier, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of a man in a red turban and blue coat with a black feather, pointing with his hands.

Itcho-Tustinnugge

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1840

Engraved bust portrait of a man with an open-mouthed expression, captioned Jeff Davis, After the Fall of Fort Sumter.

Jefferson Davis

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1850

Engraved oval portrait of King Henry I of England holding a sceptre and orb, with Latin inscription and caption below.

Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy

Renold Elstrack, 1610

Lithograph portrait of a man with tousled hair, dark coat and white cravat, with handwritten notes below.

Horace Binney

Albert Newsam, 1820

Esh-ta-hum-leah

John T. Bowen, 1830

Saint-Mémin folio 9

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1810

Hand-colored print portrait of Nea-math-la, a Seminole chief, in a red headwrap, blue jacket, and beaded sash.

Nea-math-la - A Seminole Chief

R. T, 1830

Engraved oval portrait of King Edward III in crown and ermine robes, holding a sceptre and orb, with a text caption below.

Edward III (Edward of Windsor), King of England

Renold Elstrack, 1610

Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1790

Hand-colored print of a Native American man with red face paint, silver armbands, shell necklace and tomahawk.

Young Ma Has Kah

Charles Bird King, 1830

Engraved bust portrait of a man with wavy hair, high collar and bow tie, labeled Lewis Tappan.

Lewis Tappan

Lewis Tappan, 1870

Saint-Mémin folio 16

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1780

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of a Shawnee chief with red feathered headdress, red face paint, and silver nose ring.

Kish-kallo-wa

Charles Bird King, 1830

Engraved portrait of Philip Syng Physick, a man in a dark frock coat and cravat, against a shaded oval background.

Philip Syng Physick

Asher Brown Durand, 1820

Steel engraving portrait of John Randolph of Roanoke, seated with a top hat and draped curtain behind him.

John Randolph

John Sartain, 1870

Hand-colored lithographic portrait of Major Ridge, a man with white curly hair in a blue coat and tan waistcoat.

Major Ridge

Charles Bird King, 1830

Black and white engraved bust portrait of an older man in a dark suit and cravat, captioned Thomas Garrett, Station Master.

Thomas Garrett

Thomas Garrett, 1870

Oval stippled engraving portrait of John Adams in a dark coat and cravat, with caption beneath, on a cream page.

John Adams

John Scoles, 1800