• Abraham Lincoln’s Last Reception
    Unknown
    receptions
    State Floor
    East Room
    inaugurations
    This is a color lithograph from 1865 entitled "Abraham Lincoln's Last Reception". The lithograph depicts the reception (possibly in the East Room) following his second inauguration. The print accurately depicts First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln attending the reception. Vice President Andrew Johnson, General Ulysses S. Grant, and his wife Julia Grant did not attend the event.
  • The Outgoing and Ingoing Presidents Leaving the White House, at 10:30 AM, for the Capitol (front)
    Albert Berghaus
    inaugurations
    drawings
    North Portico
    North Drive
    transportation
    This pencil sketch by Albert Berghaus is of Inauguration Day 1877. Outgoing President Ulysses S. Grant and President-Elect Rutherford B. Hayes leave the White House for the ceremony at the Capitol. Berghaus was a Reconstruction-era American illustrator who worked for Frank Leslie's Weekly. Berghaus' original works are extremely rare and few are in private collections. This sketch appears to be preliminary, with details such as the detailed stonework over the entrance to the North Portico only partially completed, as though Berghaus intended to use it for a larger work or finish the sketch later. See image 8772 to see the reverse side sketch and inscription.
  • Ulysses S. Grant
    Bureau of Engraving and Printing
    portrait
    engraving
    This engraving of President Ulysses S. Grant was produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. President Grant served as 18th president of the United States from 1869-1877. During the Civil War, then-General Grant led the Army of the Potomac to victory against the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee, and met with Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 to write the terms of surrender.
  • President Grant and Friends at His Cottage by the Sea
    G. W. Pach
    portrait
    First Family
    This photograph entitled "President Grant and Friends at his Cottage by the Sea" was taken by G. W. Pach of the Pach Brothers photograph studio. The cottage was located in Long Branch, New Jersey. Grant and his family often spent the summer vacationing at this home on the shore. The individuals in the photograph are identified as: President Ulysses S. Grant, First Lady Julia Dent Grant, and her father Frederick Dent in the front row. In the back row: M.G. Wilkins, Mrs. General Morris, Nebraska Senator Phineas Hitchcock, and Mr. A.P. Merrill.
  • Grant & Bonner -- Dexter's Best Time 2.16 1/4
    J. Hoover & Son
    transportation
    This illustration from 1868 was published by Joseph Hoover of J. Hoover & Son and shows President Ulysses S. Grant and Robert Bonner riding in a horse-drawn carriage in New York. Bonner was a horse owner and publisher of the "New York Ledger." Dexter, the horse in the illustration, was one of his best known horses. Grant reportedly became enamored with Dexter and asked Bonner to give it to him as a gift after this ride happened. Bonner refused because he had great affection for the horse.
  • Ulysses S. Grant
    Unknown
    portrait
    This oil on canvas portrait is of President Ulysses S. Grant. He was the 18th President from 1869-1877. Prior to his presidency, Grant served as an officer during the Civil War, rising to the rank of lieutenant general and obtaining command of all Union Armies. He married Julia Dent in 1848 and they had four children together: Frederick, Ulysses, Nellie, and Jesse.
  • General Grant at City Point
    Unknown
    military
    Civil War
    This photograph of General Ulysses S. Grant at City Point is a manipulated composite image with a 1902 copyright. It was created through the combination of three photographs: the face of Grant came from a photograph taken at his Cold Harbor, Virginia, headquarters, the body and the horse came from a photograph of Major General Alexander McDowell McCook, and the background of this photograph is of captured Confederate prisoners after the 1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill in Virginia. Grant served as an officer during the Civil War, rising to the rank of lieutenant general and obtaining command of all Union Armies. From 1869-1877 he served as the 18th President of the United States.
  • Ulysses Simpson Grant
    Thomas Le Clear
    portrait
    This painting, by Thomas Le Clear circa 1881, is of President Ulysses S. Grant. Prior to his presidency, Grant was a Civil War military leader who became Commanding General of the United States in March of 1864. He served as president from March 4, 1869 until March 4, 1877. Le Clear was an American painter born in New York who spent a number of years in Buffalo and New York City before achieving fame as a portrait painter.
  • King Kalakaua Visiting Ulysses S. Grant in the White House
    Unknown
    State Visit
    This is an engraving of King Kalakaua of Hawaii visiting President Ulysses S. Grant on December 15, 1874. Both men greet each other with a small bow in the Blue Room.
  • Ulysses S. Grant
    Henry Ulke
    official portrait
    This oil on canvas painting of Ulysses S. Grant was done by Henry Ulke. Ulke emigrated from Prussia following the Revolution of 1848 and painted portraits of presidents, cabinet members, and other notable people. Prior to his presidency, Grant was a Civil War military leader who became Commanding General of the United States in March of 1864. He served as president from March 4, 1869 until March 4, 1877.
  • The Republican Court in the Days of Lincoln
    Peter Frederick Rothermel
    East Room
    State Floor
    receptions
    inaugurations
    painting
    Cabinet
    This painting by Peter Frederick Rothermel depicts a fictitious formal reception in the East Room of the White House following President Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration on March 4, 1865. The painting features a number of historical figures: President Abraham Lincoln (standing to the right of the large chandelier that intersects the middle of the painting) with General Ulysses S. Grant to Lincoln's right, presenting his wife, Julia Dent Grant, to the president (in a light pink gown, shaking hands with Lincoln). First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln stands to Lincoln's left, holding a fan to the shoulder of General Winfield Scott. To the left of the chandelier, orator Edward Everett (who died in January 1865, before the scene portrayed this painting purportedly took place) is seated, and Secretary of State William H. Seward and General William Tecumseh Sherman are standing (Sherman stands between the two men, but toward the back). Rothermel was an American painter who is mostly known for his large historical paintings.
  • The Peacemakers
    G. P. A. Healy
    Virginia
    Civil War
    transportation
    military
    meetings
    This painting by George Peter Alexander Healy depicts four significant Union figures toward the end of the Civil War. In the cabin of the steamer River Queen are seated (from left to right) Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln, and Rear Admiral David D. Porter. The meeting took place in March 1865 on the James River in City Point, Virginia, less than a week before the fall of Petersburg, Virginia. According to Porter, the discussion flowed mostly between Lincoln and Sherman, which is reflected in all four subjects' body language. Sherman had previously sat for a portrait by Healy and commissioned the artist to paint the meeting, providing him with first-hand accounts by himself and Porter and even a diagram of the cabin. Born in Boston, Healy was a popular portrait painter who had sketched and painted Lincoln multiple times during his presidency.