1850s Gallery

Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items

Choose from 147 pictures in our 1850s collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.

Republican Party birthplace, Ripon, Wisconsin

'Great Eastern' laying transatlantic telegraph cable — "Great Eastern" laying transatlantic telegraph cable

U.S. Treasury Building, Washington DC, 1850s

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"Great Eastern" laying transatlantic telegraph cable

Steamship "Great Eastern" attempting to lay telegraph cable across the Atlantic, 1850s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Erie Canal boats at their New York City dock

Wendell Phillips urging abolition of slavery

State capitol in Springfield, Illinois, 1850s

Oregon Trail wagons camping for the night

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Us Navy squadron commanded by Matthew Perry sailing for Japan, 1852: USS Susquehannah, Saratoga, St Mary's, a supply ship, Plymouth, Perry in rowboat, Mississippi, and Princeton (left to right).
Hand-colored woodcut of an 1850s illustration

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Donkey-riders on their way to see the pyramids, 1800s

Sir Richard Burton exploring central Africa, 1850s

Cotton loaded on steamboats by black slaves, New Orleans

Paddlewheel steamship Arabia of the Cunard LIne

Hartford on the Connecticut River, 1850s

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Sir Richard Burton exploring central Africa, 1850s

English explorer Richard Burton's march towards central Africa, 1850s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Japanese emperor Komei in his palace at Kyoto, 1850s

McClure discovers the Northwest Passage, 1850

Steamboats on the Mississippi at St. Louis, Missouri

Cincinnati, viewed from the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, 1850s