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This early 20th century US Presidential History photo features Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President, sporting the Rough Riders uniform during the Spanish-American War. He is till this date the youngest person to become the US President, and as a leader of the progressive movement, he championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.

This mid 19th century US Presidential History painting features Martin Van Buren, 8th US President and the first in office to be born under the American flag. Original painting by Daniel Huntington.

This early 20th century US History photo features Carrie Catt, a prominent American suffragist, who campaigned for the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1920, which granted American women the right to vote. As a skilled political strategist, she directed the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and also founded the League of Women Voters to include women into the political mainstream.

This late 19th century US Boxing History print titled ‘The Champion Slugger--Knocking 'Em Out’ by Currier & Ives featuring a heavyweight boxer standing with fists raised over two knocked out opponents.

This late 16th century British History painting by William Segar features the portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, a British aristocrat and explorer, who is best known for having sailed to South America in search of El Dorado, the legendary lost city of gold. After having successfully suppressed an uprising in Munster, Ireland, he was knighted by the Queen, was appointed Captain of the Queen’s Guard, and was rewarded with extensive estates in Ireland.

This mid 20th century US History photo by Russell Lee features a miner from the P V & K Coal Company, Clover Mine, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky. At the time, Russell Lee was working with the US Department of Interior and clicked as many as 4000 photos depicting the working conditions in coal mines, communities involved in mining bituminous coal, and the Pentecostal Church of God established in the Kentucky coal camp. Photo taken on September 13, 1946.

This early 20th century US Presidential History photo features President Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President. As president, Theodore Roosevelt is best known for resolving the Coal Strike of 1902 and avoiding a labor strife, in addition to promoting the conservation movement that led to the establishment of an extensive network of national parks and forests.

This mid 20th century US Military History photo features General George Catlett Marshall Jr, who was one of the most decorated military leaders in the US after the Second World War when he carried out the exponential expansion of the US Army. After the Second World War, he devised the Marshall Plan which entailed provision of $15 billion to Western Europe to rebuild after the widespread devastation.

This mid 19th century US Presidential History print features John Quincy Adams, 6th US President, whose term in office began in 1825 and came to an end in 1829. As president, John Quincy Adams ensured federal involvement in the economic development of the country and approved federal expenditure to provide impetus to development of canals, roadways and scientific research.

This mid 19th century US Presidential History print features Millard Fillmore, 13th US President who assumed office after the sudden death of Zachary Taylor courtesy of outdated medical treatment. Referred to as one of the five accidental presidents in US History, Millard Fillmore was the last Whig Party member to be in the White House and is most well-known for delaying the American Civil War by another 10 years.

This early 20th century US Natural History photo features John Muir, a well-known and influential US naturalist and environmentalist who initiated the movement that led to the establishment of national parks. He is most well-known for having co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892, and for undertaking a 3-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 which led to shaping of conservationist policies.

This mid 19th century US Presidential History photo features Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of 16th President Abraham Lincoln, and First Lady of the US from 1861 to 1865.

This early 20th century Native American History photo features Hollow Horn Bear, a Brule Lakota leader who fought in the Sioux Wars and then was stationed at the Rosebud Indian Reservation as the police chief. As an orator and negotiator for the Lakota tribe, he often travelled to Washington DC to participate in the decision making process and also took part in the inaugural parades for US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

This mid 19th century US Military History photo features General Robert Anderson, who is most well-known for being the Union Commander for Fort Sumter when the Confederate Army forced its surrender in April 1861, during the American Civil War.

This mid 19th century US History photo features Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and escaped to evolve into the father of civil rights movement, a well-known social reformer and an activist for women’s rights. As a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, Douglass convinced him to allow slaves to join the Union Forces and ensured that the war brought to an end the centuries old tradition of slavery.

This mid 19th century US Presidential History photo features Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, just before he assumed presidency of the nation. Of this portrait, Abraham Lincoln remarked: "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have ever seen; if it pleases the people I am satisfied." Photo taken June 3, 1860.

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This early 19th century US Presidential History artwork titled ‘Thomas Jefferson’ by Gilbert Stuart features the 3rd US President Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence and was also a leading figure in shaping up America's early development. During the American Revolutionary War, which occurred from 1775 to 1783, Jefferson served in the Virginia legislature and also in the Continental Congress.

This European Astronomy History print features Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish mathematician and astronomer who is regarded as being the father of modern astronomy. He was the first modern European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolved around the sun, which later came to be known as the Heliocentric Theory of the universe.

This late 19th century British Literary History print features Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet, novelist and playwright who after having written different literary texts evolved into one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams, plays, his novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.

Proud of your state? Want to display that pride? Do it with this Ohio silhouette shirt that reads, "Motherland".

Proud of your state? Want to display that pride? Do it with this Ohio silhouette shirt that reads, "Motherland".

This mid 19th century British Literary History print features Jane Austen, a novelist whose novels interpret, and comment upon the British landed gentry towards the end of the 18th century. She is best known for her six novels, namely Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, all of which were released during the second decade of the 19th century.

This late 18th century US Presidential History artwork titled ‘General George Washington at Trenton’ by John Trumbull features General George Washington at night after the Battle of Assunpink Creek, which is also known as the Second Battle of Trenton, and which took place before the Battle of Princeton. The battle was fought between American and British soldiers around Trenton, New Jersey, during the American Revolutionary War and resulted in a victory for the Americans.

This mid 19th century US History print features Admiral David Porter standing in uniform with a sword in his hand onboard an ironclad naval vessel. As an admiral in the US Navy and being a member of one of the most distinguished naval families, he was the second US Navy officer ever to be promoted to the rank of admiral, the first being his adoptive brother, David G. Farragut.

This mid 19th century US Presidential History painting features Martin Van Buren, 8th US President, who is most well known for having founded the Democratic Party, one of the leading political parties in the United States. Owing to being a shrewd politician, he was popularly referred to by nicknames ‘Red Fox’’ and ‘Little Magician’, but despite his cunning disposition he failed to win a second Presidential term. Original painting by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858.

This mid 19th century US Military History print features Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles of 70th New York Infantry Regiment and General Staff U.S. Volunteers Infantry Regiment in uniform. As a distinguished American soldier, politician and diplomat, Daniel Sickles made a significant contribution in the American Civil War, particularly in the Eastern Campaigns, and the Battle of Gettysburg.

This late 19th century US Social History print features Harriet Tubman, who was born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland, as a slave and was beaten, whipped and ill-treated by her masters as a child. After having escaped to Philadelphia, she returned to Maryland and rescued her family and also other slaves traveling by night under the cover of secrecy and relying on safehouses referred to as the Underground Railroad.

This mid 19th century US Presidential History print features Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, who despite his humble beginnings went on to occupy the highest political office of the country. A self-educated individual he first became a lawyer and then shifted to politics by assuming leadership of the Whig Party followed by qualifying as the state legislator and US Congressman for the State of Illinois.

This early 20th century US Military History photo features General Leonard Wood, who began his career in the US Military as a physician and went on to receive a Medal of Honor for his services. His other achievements include commanding the Rough Riders in the Spanish American War, and serving as the Military Governor of Cuba. Governor General of the Philippines and Chief of Staff of the US Army.

This mid 19th century US Political History photo features Henry Clay, an American attorney, statesman and politician, who had earned a reputation for diffusing any sectional crisis and hence acquired the title “Great Compromiser’. He represented Kentucky in the US Senate and the US House of Representatives, served as the ninth US Secretary of State and the seventh speaker in the US House of Representatives.

This mid 19th century US Presidential History print features Abraham Lincoln, the 16th US President who hailed from humble beginnings and is most well known for his preservation of the Union and the end of slavery. This is the photograph used for the five dollar bill. During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln projected himself as an aggressive commander-in-chief of the Union Army who left no stone unturned to ensure victory and liberate the slaves.

This mid 19th century US Political History photo features John C. Calhoun, a renowned political theorist, who hailed from South Carolina, and holds the honor of being the 7th Vice-President of the United States. Courtesy of his rigid views pertaining to Southern beliefs and practices, Calhoun earned the nickname ‘cast-iron man’ and was later voted as one of the five greatest US senators of all times.

This mid 20th century US Presidential History print features John F. Kennedy, 35th US President, in his naval uniform, when he had been assigned to the ONI Head Office in Charleston, South Carolina. During his tenure as a US Navy Reserve Officer from 1941 to 1945, Kennedy held a number of commands and earned several military decorations, awards and citations.

This mid 19th century US Military History print features William Tecumseh Sherman, an American soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a Union General, he is most well-known for having led 60,000 soldiers on ‘Sherman’s March’ which covered 285 miles from Atlanta to Savannah in Georgia and during which the Union troops routed the South.

This late 18th century British Social History artwork by George Romney features John Wesley, an English evangelist and theologian, who spearheaded the revival movement while serving the Church of England and named it Methodism. Without cutting ties from the Anglican Church, John Wesley founded societies dedicated to the communal pursuit of holiness within the established traditions in a methodical manner.