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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Print

Dolly Payne Madison

Date: 1836
Description: Engraving of Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, the fourth President of the United States. The engraving was done by J.F.E. Prudhomme from a drawing don...
Print

Mary Todd Lincoln

Date: 1864
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln in a dark-colored dress, hair in ringlets with a jeweled hair band, and holding a fan; engraved by Samuel Sartain, and pri...
Postcard

The First Kindergarten in America

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Description: Artist's rendering of an elevated view of the first kindergarten, with children and a teacher gathered in front of the building. There are inset portraits ...
Book or Pamphlet

Davis Platform Binder Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1891
Description: Catalog cover with an illustration of a framed portrait of a red headed woman wearing an off-white hat and pink dress, surrounded by foliage and flowers.
Photograph

Crawford Livingston, Sr.

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Description: Photograph of an 1837 painting of Crawford Livingston, Sr., his wife and son. The painting was the work of John Livingston Harding. Murray K. Keyes photogr...
Postcard

Qua-bas-er-o-qua

Date: 1908
Description: Photographic postcard of Qua-bas-er-o-qua, an Ojibwa (Chippewa) woman. She is seated on the ground in a low woven chair, and is wearing traditional clothin...
Print

Abigail Adams

Date: 1839
Description: Facsimile engraving of a Gilbert Stuart painting of Abigail (Smith) Adams, wife of President John Adams and second First Lady of the United States.
Print

Mrs. John Adams (Abigail Smith)

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Description: Lithographic portrait of Abigail Smith, future wife of President John Adams. Smith is depicted as a young woman, seated in a chair and holding a sprig of a...
Print

Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams

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Description: Lithographic portrait of Louisa Adams, wife of President John Quincy Adams. Inscription reads: "Painted by C.R. Leslie" and "Engraved by G.F. Storm." "Prin...
Print

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh

Date: 1874
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a reproduction of a painted portrait of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, with his wife Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Rus...

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