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First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler, the second wife of US President John Tyler, c. 1850-60. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Official portrait of US President John Tyler (1790-1862), oil on canvas by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1864. Blue Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

Vice President John Tyler receives news of the death of President William Henry Harrison. Illustration from between pages 12 and 13 of The Lives of the Presidents, v. 5, by William Osborn Stoddard, New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother...

The Russian Empire on the eve of World War I (1914) represented the largest contiguous empire in modern history, stretching from Eastern Europe across Siberia to the Pacific Ocean. Its territorial scale was the result of gradual expansion...

Three-quarter-length portrait of John Brown, salt print, reproduction of daguerreotype attributed to Martin M. Lawrence, May 1859. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

John Brown's tombstone, North Elba, New York. Photograph by Mwanner, 2008.

John Brown, daguerreotype by African-American photographer Augustus Washington in Springfield, Massachusetts, c. 1846-1847. Brown is holding the hand-colored flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant counterpart to the Underground Railroad...

Harpers Ferry arsenal; the "engine house", later called "John Brown's Fort", is on the left, 1862. National Park Service.

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), the ninth president of the United States, oil on canvas portrait by Albert Gallatin Hoit, 1840. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Battle of Tippecanoe (7 Nov 1811), chromolithograph by Kurtz & Allison, 1889. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.