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.

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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PNAV2A-00033
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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President Buchanan concluding a truce between Pawnees and Poncas
President James Buchanan persuading warring Pawnees and Poncas to shake hands, 1850s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
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