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A gouache on paper painting titled The Declaration of Independence 1776 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Philip Livingston, John Adams, George Washington...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), age 35, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

A photograph taken in 1877 by Samuel Bourne of Tukojirao II (r. 1884-1886), Maharaja Holkar of Indore, one of the Indian princely states.

The Mississippi Rifles, under Colonel Jefferson Davis, stop a Mexican charge at the Battle of Buena Vista, watercolor by Samuel Chamberlain as published in his My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue, c. 1860.

A detail of an 18th-century oil painting by Samuel Scott showing the British attack on Portobelo in November 1739 by Admiral Vernon. Portobelo, now in Panama, was a major port on the Spanish Main and a collection point for the treasure fleets...

Frederick Douglass in his early 30s, daguerreotype by Samuel J. Miller, circa 1847-52. Art Institute of Chicago.

Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876, oil on canvas painting by Edgar Samuel Paxson 1899. Whitney Gallery of Western Art.

James Monroe, oil on canvas portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse, c. 1819. White House, Washington, D.C.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), oil on canvas portrait by Samuel Stillman Osgood, 1845. New York Historical Society.

West Point and the Highlands, colour engraving by Samuel Valentine Hunt, 1869. Depicted here is a view from the heights of the west bank of the Hudson River, looking northward along the valley. The United States Military Academy, also commonly...