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

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...

Purchas His Pilgrimes, a compilation of contracts, letters, and records of important navigators, including Henry Hudson (c. 1570-1611), by the Reverend Samuel Purchas (c. 1577-1626), published in 1625. Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum...

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.

Tamora, Lavinia, Demetrius, and Chiron in Act II Scene 3 of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, painting by Samuel Woodforde (1763-1817). Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre Collection.

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

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.

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...

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862), a colonel in the US Army during the Utah War (1857-58). Photo by Samuel C. Mills. National Archives.