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The Presidents Of Our Great Republic, Lange And Kronfeld Feb 2023

The Presidents Of Our Great Republic, Lange And Kronfeld

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The steel engraving depicts portraits of fifteen presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Tyler, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and James Monroe. In the center are Franklin Pierce, George Washington, and James Buchanan. The portraits appear on a background decorated with vines and stars. At the image's top, an eagle and six flags appear. A banner is draped across the engraving's bottom.


Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President Of The United States. Born February 12, 1809. Died April15, 1865., E.B. And E.C. Kellogg, Frank P. Whiting Feb 2023

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President Of The United States. Born February 12, 1809. Died April15, 1865., E.B. And E.C. Kellogg, Frank P. Whiting

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The lithograph is a memorial print depicting a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A decorative garland adorned with a ribbon surrounds the portrait, while a dove holding an olive branch rests in a nest at the garland's top.


A. Lincoln: Late President Of The United States, H. W. Smith, Miller And Mathews Feb 2023

A. Lincoln: Late President Of The United States, H. W. Smith, Miller And Mathews

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The engraving features a black and white portrait image of Abraham Lincoln from the chest up. He is dressed in a suit and tie.


Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President Of The United States - Born Feby. 12th 1809, Died April 15th 1865, Kimmel And Forster, Anthony Berger Feb 2023

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President Of The United States - Born Feby. 12th 1809, Died April 15th 1865, Kimmel And Forster, Anthony Berger

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The hand-colored lithograph depicts a square-shaped, head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln, which was created in the likeness of a photograph by Anthony Berger. According to the item's documentary information, this is a scarce lithograph that was issued shortly after Abraham Lincoln's death.


Image Of Rev. Charles Dresser From A Daguerreotype Feb 2023

Image Of Rev. Charles Dresser From A Daguerreotype

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A black and white engraving of an image of Reverend Charles Dresser. The engraving is mounted on a thicker piece of paper. It was originally enclosed in a frame, but was removed for preservation.


Abraham Lincoln Entering Richmond, April 3d. 1865, J. Hollis, John Chester Buttre, B. B. Russell And Co. Feb 2023

Abraham Lincoln Entering Richmond, April 3d. 1865, J. Hollis, John Chester Buttre, B. B. Russell And Co.

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The black and white engraving depicts President Abraham Lincoln walking through a crowd with his son, Tad, in Richmond, Virginia. The crowd is made up of white and black spectators who cheer as the President walks through the street. The engraving was enclosed in a brown wooden frame (which featured a sticker inscribed with the number 20) but was removed for preservation. The engraving has a vertical tear along its top and features light foxing in the upper two corners.


Portrait Of Abraham Lincoln, President Of The United States, Western Engraving Co. Chicago Feb 2023

Portrait Of Abraham Lincoln, President Of The United States, Western Engraving Co. Chicago

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A black and white engraving of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The image has some slight foxing on front and back. It was originally enclosed in a frame with another print (inventory #6982), but was removed for preservation.


Your Friend, Forever A. Lincoln Engraving Feb 2023

Your Friend, Forever A. Lincoln Engraving

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The engraving depicts an image of Abraham Lincoln's right-side profile, much in the same style as Anthony Berger's "The Famous Profile" photograph (Ostendorf-88), taken on 9 February 1864. The engraving was enclosed in a black wooden frame but was removed for preservation. On the frame's glass is a sticker inscribed with the number 21.


Portrait Of Abraham Lincoln, President 1861-1865, George P. Brown And Co. Feb 2023

Portrait Of Abraham Lincoln, President 1861-1865, George P. Brown And Co.

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A black and white portrait illustration of Abraham Lincoln from Brown's Famous Pictures collection. The print was found behind another print (inventory # 6981) in a frame, but was removed for preservation.


Oval Bust Of General Henry Wager Halleck, John Chester Buttre Feb 2023

Oval Bust Of General Henry Wager Halleck, John Chester Buttre

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The steel engraving depicts a bust portrait of General Henry Wager Halleck, General-in-Chief of all Union armies from July 23, 1862 until Ulysses S. Grant assumed the role on March 9, 1864. The engraving is printed in black in on off-white paper. It appears to have been torn from a bound volume.


Oval Bust Portrait Of Major General David Hunter, John Chester Buttre Feb 2023

Oval Bust Portrait Of Major General David Hunter, John Chester Buttre

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The steel engraving depicts a portrait of Major General Hunter, Union general and president of the military commission trying the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirators. The engraving is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been torn from a bound volume.


Abraham Lincoln Portrait Engraving, Bureau Of Printing And Engraving Feb 2023

Abraham Lincoln Portrait Engraving, Bureau Of Printing And Engraving

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The engraving features a portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the waist up in vignette style. The engraving was enclosed within a black frame, but was removed for preservation.


Oval Bust Portrait Of General Winfield Scott, John Chester Buttre Feb 2023

Oval Bust Portrait Of General Winfield Scott, John Chester Buttre

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The steel engraving depicts a bust image of Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Commanding General of the United States Army for twenty years. The engraving is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been torn from a bound volume.


Portrait Of Abraham And Tad Lincoln, Emily Sartain, R. R. London Feb 2023

Portrait Of Abraham And Tad Lincoln, Emily Sartain, R. R. London

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The small engraved portrait depicts Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, reading from a book. Lincoln sits wearing glasses on his face while holding a book in his lap. Both Lincoln and Tad focus their gaze toward the book as Lincoln uses his proper right hand to turn a page.


Battle Of Malvern Hill -- Lee's Attack, Alfred Rudolph Waud Feb 2023

Battle Of Malvern Hill -- Lee's Attack, Alfred Rudolph Waud

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The image depicts the Battle of Malvern Hill, which took place during the American Civil War on July 1, 1862. General Robert E. Lee stood command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, while General George B. McClellan commanded the Union Army of Potomac. The two armies collided near Richmond, Virginia. The battle was a part of the Peninsula Campaign's Seven Days Battles. The image is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been removed from a bound volume.


John Brown Meeting The Slave Mother And Her Child On The Steps Of Charlestown Jail On His Way To Execution., Currier And Ives, Louis Ransom Feb 2023

John Brown Meeting The Slave Mother And Her Child On The Steps Of Charlestown Jail On His Way To Execution., Currier And Ives, Louis Ransom

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The color lithograph depicts a scene outside of a jail house in Charles Town, West Virginia. Pictured are John Brown, a slave mother and child, and several pro-slavery sympathizers. Brown was convicted of treason for attempting to overtake a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and was sentenced to death. The scene takes place just before Brown was executed.


Oval Bust Portrait Of Roger B. Taney, William G. Jackman Feb 2023

Oval Bust Portrait Of Roger B. Taney, William G. Jackman

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The steel engraving depicts a bust portrait of Roger B. Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and deliverer of a pro-slavery decision in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case. The engraving is printed on off-white paper and in black ink. It appears to have been torn from a bound volume.


Oval Bust Portrait Of Frank P. Blair, John Chester Buttre, Mathew Brady Feb 2023

Oval Bust Portrait Of Frank P. Blair, John Chester Buttre, Mathew Brady

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The steel engraving depicts a bust portrait of the Honorable Frank P. Blair, who played an instrumental role in preventing Missouri from being absorbed by the Confederate States. The engraving is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been removed from a bound volume.


Oval Bust Portrait Of Carl Schurz Feb 2023

Oval Bust Portrait Of Carl Schurz

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The steel engraving depicts a bust portrait of Carl Schurz, a Union General in the United States Civil War and 13th United States Secretary of the Interior. The engraving is printed on off-white paper with black ink. It appears to have been torn from a bound volume.


Oval Bust Portrait Of Horatio Seymour Feb 2023

Oval Bust Portrait Of Horatio Seymour

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The steel engraving depicts a bust portrait of Horatio Seymour, the governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He also was the Democratic presidential nominee in the 1868 presidential election. The portrait is printed on off-white paper with black ink. It appears to have been torn from a bound volume.


Oval Bust Portrait Of Ulysses S. Grant, Freeman Thrope Feb 2023

Oval Bust Portrait Of Ulysses S. Grant, Freeman Thrope

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The steel engraving depicts a bust portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States. The engraving is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been torn from a bound volume.


Oval Bust Portrait Of Thurlow Weed Feb 2023

Oval Bust Portrait Of Thurlow Weed

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The steel engraving depicts a bust portrait of Thurlow Weed, a New York newspaper publisher and Whig and Republican politician. The portrait is printed in black ink on off-white paper. It appears to have been removed from a bound volume.


Gideon Welles, Metropolitan Publishing And Engraving Company Feb 2023

Gideon Welles, Metropolitan Publishing And Engraving Company

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The engraving features a bust-length portrait of Gideon Welles, secretary of the Navy from 1861-1869.


Vicksburg Canal (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck Feb 2023

Vicksburg Canal (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck

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The etching depicts a scene where Confederate watch from a distance as Union troops construct a canal near Vicksburg in 1862-1863


Marylanders Crossing To Potomac To Join The Southern Army (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck Feb 2023

Marylanders Crossing To Potomac To Join The Southern Army (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck

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Maryland, Volck's adopted state, was a border state during the American Civil War. The Potomac River served as a physical barrier between the Union and Confederacy, which is depicted in the etching.


Free [Redacted] In Hayti (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck Feb 2023

Free [Redacted] In Hayti (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck

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The etching attempts to capture Volck's belief that Haitian people of African-decent were predisposed to an inherent violent nature. The scene depicts a ritual where an infant is sacrificed on a rock. Its head appears on a spear as a drum and tambourine are played. In the back ground, men and women are eating. One man appears to be eating a human arm.


Writing The Emancipation Proclamation (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck Feb 2023

Writing The Emancipation Proclamation (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck

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The etching depicts Abraham Lincoln drafting the Emancipation Proclamation and appears to be in cohorts with the devil. The proclamation, which was signed on January 1, 1863, freed all slaves in Confederate states. Also depicted is a portrait of John Brown, a radical abolitionist, hanging on Lincoln's wall.


Buying A Substitute In The North During The War (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck Feb 2023

Buying A Substitute In The North During The War (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck

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Volck's image is a negative comment on the Northern practice of permitting men to replace them in the draft. The image depicts well-dressed man admitting another man into a public house where substitutes are for sale. The entryway door has a sign posted that states substitutes are for sale and indicates that they are "ablebodied men." The substitutes include lower-class men, including black individuals. In the background hangs an "Honest Abe" poster.


Portrait Of Grant, Lincoln, Sheridan, Sherman, H. H. Lloyd Feb 2023

Portrait Of Grant, Lincoln, Sheridan, Sherman, H. H. Lloyd

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The print features black and white portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Sheridan, and William Sherman. Each portrait is surrounded by an oval decorative border with their last names written underneath. The background behind the portraits is made up of two vignette scenes. The first (top) is a a dusty battle scene. The second appears to be a meeting between four men. It is printed on off-white paper.


Gen'l Stuart's Return From Pennsylvania (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck Feb 2023

Gen'l Stuart's Return From Pennsylvania (From Confederate War Etchings), Adalbert John Volck

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The etching depicts General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalrymen and horses resting. In October 1862, this cavalry division conducted raiding stops in Pennsylvania, which resulted in the cavalry confiscating horses and hats, as depicted in the image.