This class includes prints from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries. Many prints are in color while others are black and white.
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Abraham Lincoln. Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States.
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg and George Whiting
The color lithograph depicts a seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln. In the President's proper right hand, he holds a document while books rest at his elbow. A blue curtain hangs in the background.
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A. Lincoln
J. C. McRae and Virtue, Yorston and Co. Publishers
The engraving features a portrait of Abraham Lincoln surrounded by a decorative oval border. At the top of the border sits a stack of papers, which include the Constitution. Beneath the portrait is a smaller image of Lincoln's cabinet council. The work features hues of yellow, green, blue, black, white, and brown. The engraving possibly is a reversed variant of C.S. German photo.
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A. Lincoln Color Engraving
George Edward Perine and Charles DeForest Fredricks
The engraved bust-length portrait of Abraham Lincoln features a color portrait from the waist up. The engraving was created for Joel T. Headley's The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States.
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A. Lincoln Color Engraving
William G. Jackman
The color engraving features a portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the waist up. It originally appeared in John S. C. Abbott's The History of the Civil War in America.
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President Lincoln and His Cabinet, with Lt. Gen. Scott, in the Council Chamber at the White House
Robert Whitechurch and Christian Schussele
The steel engraving features a black and white image of Abraham Lincoln and his 1861 cabinet members. Pictured from left to right are Edward Bates (Attorney General), Gideon Welles (Secretary of the Navy), Montgomery Blair (Postmaster General), William Henry Seward (Secretary of State), Salmon Portland Chase (Secretary of the Treasury), the President, General Winfield Scott (Chief of the Army), Caleb Blood Smith (Secretary of the Interior), and Simon Cameron (Secretary of War). Since the engraving lacks a publication line, it may never have been issued, perhaps because Scott retired and Cameron had been replaced by February 1862.
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William H. Seward Engraving
The engraved portrait of William H. Seward is printed on off-white paper with black ink. It features a vignette portrait of Seward from the chest up. There is severe foxing on the engraving's recto and verso.
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Battle of Lookout Mountain, GA.
John R. Chapin and Virtue, Yorston and Co. Publishers
In the black and white steel engraving, a scene from the Battle of Lookout Mountain is depicted. This battle took place on November 24th, 1863 and resulted in a Union victory. The engraving features Union soldiers climbing a mountain slope. One has fallen to the ground, possibly because he is wounded. In the background, battle lines and smoke are pictured. The engraving appears to have been removed from a bound volume, possibly volume 3 of The War with the South: a History of the Late Rebellion by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 volumes, 1862-1867.
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Engraved Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
William Edgar Marshall
The engraving is restrike or reproduction of an 1866 engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln (Ref: H/B/N - fig. 102). Marshall, after Lincoln's death in 1865, painted a portrait of the President that was used as the basis for the engraving. In the portrait, Lincoln wears a black coat and tie. His portrait is depicted in hues of black and white and is surrounded by an oval floral border, which is further surrounded by a decorative rectangular frame.
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Battle of Malvern Hill.
Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel
The image depicts a scene from Battle of Malvern Hill, which took place near Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War on July 1, 1862 as a part of the Peninsula Campaign's Seven Days Battles. The engraving shows hundreds of soldiers lined in rows while men on horses appear throughout the scene. The image appears to have been taken from a bound volume, possibly from E.A. Duyckinck's History of the War for the Union.
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Attack Upon the 6th Mass. Regiment
John Chester Buttre and William Momberger
The engraving features a black and white scene from the Baltimore Riot of 1861, a civil uprising between Confederate sympathizers and members of the primarily Massachusetts state militia regiment en route to the national capital at Washington. The engraving originally appeared in The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War In The United States of America. This particular copy was removed from the bound volume.
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Loyal Americans
Charles D. and rews, Alfred Kemble Kipps, and Benjamin B. Russell
Pictured at the center of the tinted lithograph is an oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln. This portrait is surrounded by oval portraits of Union statesmen and military leaders (clockwise from top): General Scott, H. Hamlin, S. Cameron, G. Welles, M. Blair, General Butler, General Anderson, Colonel Ellsworth, C.B. Smith, E. Bates, S.P. Chase, and W.H. Seward.
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A. Lincoln Color Engraving
Alexand er Hay Ritchie and Mathew Brady
The object is an engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the waist up that has been printed on off-white paper with black ink. It has severe foxing on its recto and verso. The engraving was probably a book illustration.
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Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States.
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg and Frank P. Whiting
The chromolithograph is a memorial print depicting a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A decorative garland adorned with a red, white, and blue ribbon surrounds the portrait, while a dove holding an olive branch rests in a nest at the garland's top.
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Battle of Pea Ridge. Gen. Sigel's Charge.
William T. Crane, John Rogers, and Samuel Walker
The black and white steel engraving depicts a scene from the Battle of Pea Ridge. In the scene, General Sigel and another officer ride on horseback as the battle rages in the background. A dead soldier lies in the foreground, while an American flag waves in the distance.
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Battle of Shiloh, Tenn. Charge of General Grant.
Felix Octavius Carr Darley; William Ridgeway; and Virtue, Yorston and Co. Publishers
The black and white steel engraving features a scene from the Battle of Shiloh. In the scene, General Grant rides his horse as Confederate soldiers flee the cavalry charge. In the foreground, a tattered flag is held by a fallen soldier. The Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the Civil War's Western Theater, and is considered one of the bloodiest battles in American history, resulting in over twenty-three thousand collective casualties.
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City of Providence from Prospect hill
D. Appleton and Co.
The color engraving features an illustration of the city of Providence, Rhode Island from the vantage point of Prospect Hill. A man and a woman stand on the hillside while looking sown on the city. The image features hues of green, brown, black, pink, blue, and white. It is printed on off-white paper.
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Battle of Ball's Bluff, VA. Rescuing the Body of Brig. Gen. Baker
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, J. Godfrey, and Virtue and Co. Publishers
The black and white engraving depicts a scene from the Battle of Ball's Bluff, where Colonel Edward Baker was shot and killed. The image shows several Union soldiers carrying Baker's lifeless body while others fight with swords and rifles.
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The Valley of the Shenandoah, from Jeffersons Rock (Harper's Ferry)
William H. Barlett, James Tibbitts Willmore, and George Virtue
The black and white steel engraving depicts a scene from the Shenandoah River Valley. In the scene, three women and one man stand on rocky terrain that overlooks the Shenandoah River. Two goats are also pictured among the natural vegetation. A crescent moon hangs in the sky at the image's upper left corner.
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Battle at Wilson's Creek, Mo.
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, V. Balch, and Virtue and Co. Publishers
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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Jefferson Davis Steel Engraving
Stick and Druck von Weger and Mathew Brady
The steel engraving features a bust portrait of Jefferson David. It is engraved in black ink on off-white paper. There appears to be water damage to the right side of the engraving. Several areas of foxing are evident. It was accompanied by a Confederate $50.00 bill.
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Massachusetts Militia Passing Through Baltimore
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, F. F. Walker, and Virtue and Co. Publishers
The black and white engraving features a scene from the Baltimore Riot of 1861, a civil uprising between Confederate sympathizers and members of the primarily Massachusetts state militia regiment en route to the national capital at Washington. The engraving may have originally appeared in a bound volume, as evidenced by the holes at the engraving's bottom.
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Battle of Murfresboro - Capture of a Confederate Flag.
Johnson, Fry and Co. and Alonzo Chappel
The black and white steel engraving depicts a scene from the Battle of Murfreesboro. It shows Union soldiers taking over a cannon as well as fighting for a Confederate flag in the background. The engraving most likely was taken from E.A. Duyckinck's History of the War for the Union.
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Gen. Kearney's Charge at the Battle of Chantilly, VA.
John R. Chapin and Virtue and Co. Publishers
The black and white engraving features a scene from the Battle of Chantilly, where General Philip Kearny was killed in action. The image depicts Kearny on horseback as Union troops and an American flag follow him into battle. Confederate soldiers stand at his front with their guns pointed. The engraving appears to have been removed from a bound volume as evidenced by the binding holes at the engraving's top edge.
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Capture of Forth Donelson, Tenn. Charge of Gen. Smith's Division
Felix Octavius Carr Darley and Virtue and Co. Publishers
The black and white engraving depicts a scene from the Battle of Fort Donelson, where General Charles Ferguson Smith successfully led his division of volunteers in February 1862. The image shows soldiers fighting on a battlefield. Several bodies lie lifeless on the ground. An American flag waves prominently at the center of the image.
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Capture of Roanoke Island, Charge of Zouaves
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, John J. Crew, and Virtue and Co. Publishers
The black and white engraving features a violent scene from the Battle of Roanoke Island. In the scene, soldiers fight with rifles and swords drawn. Several bodies lie lifeless on the ground, while two American flags wave in the background.