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Caricature of an elderly bearded man seated on a stack of books, reading, with a coat of arms labeled A. Carnegie.

Andrew Carnegie

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Robert Hoe

J. Alden Weir, 1890

Engraved portrait of an older man seated in an armchair, holding papers, wearing a dark coat and white cravat.

Elias Boudinot, IV

Asher Brown Durand, 1810

Lithographic portrait of Daniel Webster in a dark coat and white cravat, gazing toward the viewer, on cream paper.

Daniel Webster

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Henry H. Houston, 1800

Steel engraving of three seated men in formal dress before a paneled wall, one in academic robes with an open book.

Commencement Day, Yale College

John Sartain, 1860

Lithograph of a deathbed scene with mourners in a dim room, a bearded man in bed, and a woman in a light gown weeping.

The Death-Bed of the Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, 1860

Printed chart of single and double hand alphabet signs with portraits, a building engraving, and explanatory text.

Laura Dewey Bridgeman

C. A. Alvord, 1850

Puck supplement poster with oval portrait of Longfellow, two women holding laurel wreaths, a winged angel, and a printed poem

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joseph Keppler, 1880

Engraved print of seven president portraits around a central niche with a statue, desk, and eagle above.

The Presidents of the United States

John William Casilear, 1830

Wood engraving of a mustached man leaning on a lectern, captioned Artemus Ward as a Popular Lecturer, from Vanity Fair.

Charles Farrar Browne

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co, 1860

Grover Cleveland

Napoleon Sarony, 1880

Colored lithograph of a parade celebrating the Fifteenth Amendment, framed by portraits and scenes of voting and daily life.

The Fifteenth Amendment

Thomas Kelly, 1861

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in military uniform with star collar insignia, captioned Gen. R. E. Lee, on tan card.

Robert E. Lee

D. Murphy, 1861

Caricature campaign card of a woman with hands on hips, captioned Our Next President, Belvia Lockwood, But Do-N-T Give It Awa

Our Next President

Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood, 1861

Caricature of a bearded man in a tartan kilt pointing at a chalkboard of stick-figure millionaires marked 30 cents.

A Braw Laddie

Frederick Victor Gillam, 1900

Hand-colored lithograph of a deathbed scene with mourners in a room with red and green bed curtains.

Death of Harrison

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Lithograph of Charles Sumner in a dark suit raising a Presidential Proclamation scroll, surrounded by sketched heads of a cro

Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner, 1850

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit, seated with his hand raised to his cheek against a dark background.

Joseph Pulitzer

Henry L. Wolf, 1861

William Lloyd Garrison

Leopold Grozelier, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of oval portraits of United States presidents around a central Washington medallion and Declaration s

Presidents of the United States

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark military uniform with epaulettes, holding a document and sword, before classical colum

William Sprague

William Sprague, 1861

Pencil portrait of a balding man in spectacles and bow tie, with the script caption William Lloyd Garrison below.

William Lloyd Garrison

Joseph Edward Baker, 1860

Lithograph portrait of an older bald man in a dark coat and white cravat, captioned John Jeffries, M.D.

John Jeffries

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1820

Engraved grid of nine US presidents and Martha Washington in oval portrait, with birth and death caption lines beneath each.

Mrs. Martha Washington

Nathaniel Dearborn, 1830

Lithograph portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark fur-collared coat, labeled Daniel Boone.

Daniel Boone

Albert Newsam, 1820

Hand-colored lithographic portrait of a man in a navy coat with gold epaulettes and white cravat, titled Pushmataha.

Pushmataha

John William Gear, 1830

Oval lithograph portrait of an older man in a dark coat and bow tie, labeled Edward Hitchcock.

Edward Hitchcock

Leopold Grozelier, 1850

Lithograph of rows of men in dark suits below an allegorical woman crowning a kneeling woman, with flags and state seals.

Coronation of Womanhood

Susan B. Anthony, 1880

Hand-colored lithograph of a man in a red turban and blue jacket pointing to a chart of syllabary characters.

Sequoyah

Charles Bird King, 1830