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  Battle of Rich Mountain

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel

  The black and white steel engraving depicts a scene from the Battle of Rich Mountain. Union soldiers stand with guns pointed behind a protective fence as Confederate soldiers approach from a smoky fog. The image is printed on off-white paper with black ink.

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  Battle of Williamsburg

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel

  The black and white engraving depicts a scene from the Battle of Williamsburg. several soldiers are shown fighting, while others lie fallen on the grown. Some soldiers are shown carrying wounded men. Smoke fills the background of the image. The engraving is printed on off-white paper with black ink and appears to have been removed from a bound volume (possibly from Everett A. Duyckinck's History of the War for the Union: Civil, Military and Naval).

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  Battle of Wilson's Creek - Death of Gen. Lyon.

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel

  The black and white steel engraving features a scene from the Battle of Wilson's Creek. In this battle, Nathaniel Lyon became the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. The scene depicts his death amongst the chaos of battle.

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  Capture of Fort Donelson

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel

  The black and white steel engraving features a scene from the Battle of Fort Donelson. The scene is filled with men holding flags and weapons. Several are injured or have perished. The engraving is printed on off-white paper.

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  Capture of New Orleans - Attack on Fort Phillip

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel

  The black and white steel engraving features a scene from the Capture of New Orleans. The scene takes place on water, and several water crafts and smoke fill the scene. The engraving is printed on white paper with black ink. The engraving appears to have been taken from a bound volume. (Possibly from Everett A. Duyckinck's History of the War for the Union: Civil, Military and Naval.)

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  Charles Wilkes Seated Portrait

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel

  The colored engraving features a full-length portrait of Charles Wilkes. Wilkes is seated at a table. His proper right hand rests on a pile of papers while his proper left holds a sword. The engraving is printed on off-white paper that appears to have been removed from a bound volume.

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  John Tyler Seated Portrait

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel

  The colored engraving features a full-bodied seated portrait of John Tyler. He is seated at a desk and holding a book. The portrait is printed on off-white paper and appears to have been torn from a bound volume.

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  Attack on Fort Wagner

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Thomas Nast

  The black and white steel engraving features a battle scene from the Battle of Morris Island, which took place at Fort Wagner, South Carolina in 1863. The image depicts men fighting on either side of a fallen barrier wall. An American flag, held by a soldier, is featured at the center of the image. The engraving is printed on off-white paper.

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  Battle of Chicamaug Lt. Van Pelt Defending His Battery

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Thomas Nast

  The black and white steel engraving features a scene from the Battle of Chickamauga. Lt. Van Pelt is shown standing by a cannon across from a line of Confederate soldiers. Union soldiers cover him from behind. The image is printed on off-white paper with black ink and appears to have be torn from a bound volume.

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  Battle of Lookout Mountain

  Johnson, Fry and Co. and Thomas Nast

  The black and white engraving depicts a scene from the Battle of Lookout Mountain. Union soldiers are shown climbing rough terrain to face the Confederate army. The image is printed on off-white paper with black ink and appears to have been removed from a bound volume.

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  Abraham Lincoln Portrait

  Johnson, Fry & Co and Alonzo Chappel

  Engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln, after a painting by Chappel. Pub. ca. 1870 by Johnson, Wilson, & Company, New York. published and copyrighted by Johnson, Fry & Co. (American, active 19th century), from painting by Alonzo Chappel (American, 1828-1887)

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  Photograph of Return Visit Statue at Lincoln Square in Gettysburg

  J. Seward Johnson II

  The color photograph depicts a statue entitled Return Visit. The statue has two subjects that are dressed as Abraham Lincoln and a contemporary male tourist. It was installed at Lincoln Square in front of the Willis House in 1991.

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  Photograph of Return Visit Statue at Lincoln Square in Gettysburg

  J. Seward Johnson II

  The color photograph depicts a statue entitled Return Visit. The statue has two subjects that are dressed as Abraham Lincoln and a contemporary male tourist. It was installed at Lincoln Square in front of the Willis House in 1991.

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  Photograph of Return Visit Statue at Lincoln Square in Gettysburg

  J. Seward Johnson II

  The color photograph depicts a statue entitled Return Visit. The statue has two subjects that are dressed as Abraham Lincoln and a contemporary male tourist. It was installed at Lincoln Square in front of the Willis House in 1991.

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  Photograph of Return Visit Statue at Lincoln Square in Gettysburg

  J. Seward Johnson II

  The color photograph depicts a statue entitled Return Visit. The statue has two subjects that are dressed as Abraham Lincoln and a contemporary male tourist. It was installed at Lincoln Square in front of the Willis House in 1991.

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  Photograph of Return Visit Statue at Lincoln Square in Gettysburg

  J. Seward Johnson II

  The color photograph depicts a statue entitled Return Visit. The statue has two subjects that are dressed as Abraham Lincoln and a contemporary male tourist. It was installed at Lincoln Square in front of the Willis House in 1991.

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  Photograph of Return Visit Statue at Lincoln Square in Gettysburg

  J. Seward Johnson II

  The color photograph depicts a statue entitled Return Visit. The statue has two subjects that are dressed as Abraham Lincoln and a contemporary male tourist. It was installed at Lincoln Square in front of the Willis House in 1991.

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  Photograph of Return Visit Statue at Lincoln Square in Gettysburg

  J. Seward Johnson II

  The color photograph depicts a statue entitled Return Visit. The statue has two subjects that are dressed as Abraham Lincoln and a contemporary male tourist. It was installed at Lincoln Square in front of the Willis House in 1991.

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  Photograph of Return Visit Statue at Lincoln Square in Gettysburg

  J. Seward Johnson II

  The color photograph depicts a statue entitled Return Visit. The statue has two subjects that are dressed as Abraham Lincoln and a contemporary male tourist. It was installed at Lincoln Square in front of the Willis House in 1991.

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  Vive l'America.

  J. H. Johnson

  The broadside contains a Union patriotic song made up of three verses and chorus. The songsheet also features an illustration of a Union soldier holding an American flag. He stands atop a fallen confederated flag and is flanked by two American bald eagles.

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  Reverdy Johnson Portrait

  Johnson Publishing and Engraving Company

  The colored engraving features a seated portrait of Reverdy Johnson from the waist up. It is printed on off-white paper. Johnson served as Mary Surratt's defense attorney in 1865.

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  Autograph of Reverdy Johnson

  Reverdy Johnson

  Autograph of Reverdy Johnson. Accompanies steel engraving. [See complete description listed as # 552, "Prints" category.] Framed

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  Abraham Lincoln.

  T. Johnson

  Photolithograph print removed from a bound volume; right-side bust portrait of A. Lincoln, wih text "ABRAHAM LINCOLN" at bottom. After an original illustration by T. Johnson, 1900.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorative Medal (from Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Medal Series)

  Dexter Jones, Medallic Art Company, and Hall of Fame for Great Americans

  The medal's obverse design depicts the right-side profile of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a nineteenth-century transcendentalist poet. On the reverse, a scene from Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn" is depicted. In the poem, the poet references "the shot heard round the world," which in an allusion to the first shot fired during the American Revolution. At the center of the scene, a Revolutionary soldier stands in a spread-eagle stance. Three soldiers kneel at his proper right with their backs turned and rifles drawn. A drummer and several other soldiers stand just behind the central figure.

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  Walt Whitman Commemorative Medal (from Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Medal Series)

  Dexter Jones, Medallic Art Company, and Hall of Fame for Great Americans

  The medal's obverse design depicts the right-side profile of Walt Whitman, an American poet and humanist. On the medal's reverse, seven figures are pictured: a brick layer, an industrial worker, a gentleman/businessman, a woman with a child, a woman scrubbing a floor, and a man working a plow in a field.