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1850 - 1900

Harriet Beecher Stowe.
1850 Caricature of Wilmot, Garrison, Calhoun, Greeley, and Arnold.
Caricature of the 1856 Democratic platform.
Millard Fillmore.
Map of territorial growth, 1850.
Legend for maps of territorial growth.
Clay, Fillmore, Clahoun, Webster in the Senate, 1850.
Two Portraits of John Brown.
John Brown.
The Tragic Prelude (John Brown).
Slave sale in Easton Maryland.
Statue of Brigham Young.
John C. Calhoun.
John C. Calhoun.
Bust of John C. Calhoun.
Caricature of abolitionists.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1852.
Franklin Pierce.
Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass House
Map of the Presidential Election of 1856.
Assault on Senator Sumner, 1856.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot.
James Buchanan.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1860.
Map of territorial growth, 1860.
Legend for maps of territorial growth.
Jefferson Davis.
Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson, C.S.A.
Slave treatment.
Gen George B. McClellan.
Gettysburg, July 1863.
Lincoln campaign poster.
Abraham Lincoln and son Tad.
Emancipation Proclamation.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1864.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor, Va.
Gen. William T. Sherman.
First reading of the emancipation proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln and advisors.
Gen Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.
Lincoln's box in Ford's Theater.
Ford's Theatre in Lincoln's time.
John Wilkes Booth.
McLean's House, Appomattox Court House.
Andrew Johnson.
Horace Greeley, 1866.
First page of treaty ceding Alaska to the U.S. by Russia, 1867.
Bust of Andrew Johnson.
The Supreme Court, 1868.
Members of the Louisiana Legislature of 1868.
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 1868.
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment trial.
Ulysses S. Grant.
Booker T. Washington.
Map of territorial growth, 1870.
Legend for maps of territorial growth.
Interior of Fort McKee, Korea.
A Corean Official bearing the first dispatches on board the Colorado.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1876.
Rutherford B. Hayes.
Electoral commission of 1877.
Jay Gould.
Garfield campaign poster.
Garfield campaign poster.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1880.
Map of territorial growth, 1880.
Legend for maps of territorial growth.
Bust of Chester A. Arthur.
James A. Garfield.
James A. Garfield's Assassination.
Chester A. Arthur.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1884.
Benjamin Harrison.
Grover Cleveland.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1888.
McKinley campaign speech.
Map of the Presidential Election of 1896.
The apotheosis of suffrage.
Wreck of the U.S.S. Maine.
Black Soldiers.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
Cartoon of William Jennings Bryan running for President.
Cartoon of William Jennings Bryan and other democrats.
U.S. Soldiers fighting in the Philipines, 1899.
A group of wounded Philipinos.
Dead Cuban soldiers.
Samuel Gompers.
General Aguinaldo.

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