— Bureau Portrait & Vignette Cards —
( prefix: PV )
The BEP was selling prints of their portraits and vignettes on a limited basis as early as 1880. At that time, prints could be obtained for as little as 5¢ each, if requested by a library or an art association. Broader sales to the general public began in the 1950s, when the BEP made specific engravings available in quantity. Portraits of presidents and chief justices were offered, along with vignettes of government buildings and monuments. Most recently the Landmarks of Distinction vignette set was produced. All engraved cards except for the Landmarks were printed on white card stock in black ink. Dates indicate the approximate years these cards went on sale, though many engravings were produced much earlier.
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PV-1  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of George Washington.
PV-2  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of John Adams.
PV-3  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Thomas Jefferson.
PV-4  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of James Madison.
PV-5  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of James Monroe.
PV-6  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of John Q. Adams.
PV-7  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Andrew Jackson.
PV-8  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Martin Van Buren.
PV-9  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of William H. Harrison.
PV-10  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of John Tyler.
PV-11  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of James K. Polk.
PV-12  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Zachary Taylor.
PV-13  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Millard Fillmore.
PV-14  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Franklin Pierce.
PV-15  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of James Buchanan.
PV-16  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
PV-17  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Andrew Johnson.
PV-18  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Ulysses S. Grant.
PV-19  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes.
PV-20  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of James A. Garfield.
PV-21  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Chester A. Arthur.
PV-22  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Grover Cleveland.
PV-23  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Benjamin Harrison.
PV-24  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of William McKinley.
PV-25  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Theodore Roosevelt.
PV-26  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of William H. Taft.
PV-27  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Woodrow Wilson.
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PV-28  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Warren G. Harding.
PV-29  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Calvin Coolidge.
PV-30  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Herbert Hoover.
PV-31  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
PV-32  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Harry S. Truman.
PV-33  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
PV-34  
Year:1960
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of John F. Kennedy.
PV-35  
Year:1964
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Lyndon B.. Johnson.
PV-36  
Year:1968
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Richard M. Nixon.
PV-37  
Year:1973
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Gerald R. Ford.
PV-38  
Year:1976
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Jimmy Carter.
PV-39  
Year:1980
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Ronald Reagan.
PV-40  
Year:1988
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of George H. W. Bush.
PV-41  
Year:1992
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of William J. Clinton.
PV-42  
Year:2000
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of George W. Bush.
PV-43  
Year:2008
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Barack Obama.
PV-200  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of George Washington.
PV-201  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Thomas Jefferson.
PV-202  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
PV-203  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Ulysses S. Grant.
PV-204  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of William McKinley.
PV-205  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Theodore Roosevelt.
PV-206  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of William H. Taft.
PV-207  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Woodrow Wilson.
PV-208  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Warren G. Harding.
PV-209  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Calvin Coolidge.
PV-210  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Herbert Hoover.
PV-211  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
PV-212  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Harry S. Truman.
PV-213  
Year:1950s
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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PV-214  
Year:1960
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of John F. Kennedy.
PV-215  
Year:1964
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson.
PV-216  
Year:1968
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Richard M. Nixon.
PV-217  
Year:1973
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Gerald R. Ford.
PV-218  
Year:1976
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Jimmy Carter.
PV-219  
Year:1980
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Ronald Reagan.
PV-220  
Year:1988
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of George H. W. Bush.
PV-221  
Year:1992
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of William J. Clinton.
PV-222  
Year:2000
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of George W. Bush.
PV-223  
Year:2008
Size:9" x 12"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Large portrait of Barack Obama.
PV-100  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of John Jay.
PV-101  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of John Rutledge.
PV-102  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Oliver Ellsworth.
PV-103  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of John Marshall.
PV-104  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Roger Taney.
PV-105  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Salmon P. Chase.
PV-106  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Morrison Waite.
PV-107  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Melville Fuller.
PV-108  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of E. D. White.
PV-109  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of William H. Taft, same as PV-26.
PV-110  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Charles Hughes.
PV-111  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Harlan Stone.
PV-112  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Fred Vinson.
PV-113  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Earl Warren.
PV-114  
Year:1950s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of Warren Burger.
PV-115  
Year:1969
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of William Rehnquist.
PV-116  
Year:1986
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Small portrait of John Roberts.
PV-300  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Bureau of Engraving and Printing in D.C.
PV-301  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Capitol - East View.
PV-302  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Capitol - South View.
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PV-303  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Lincoln Memorial.
PV-304  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Monticello.
PV-305  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Mount Vernon.
PV-306  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Supreme Court.
PV-307  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Dept. of the Treasury.
PV-308  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Wakefield.
PV-309  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: DC City Post Office.
PV-310  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: White House - NE view.
PV-311  
Year:1970s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: White House - South view.
PV-312  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: White House - SE view.
PV-313  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Independence Hall.
PV-314  
Year:1970s
Size:6" x 8"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Washington Monument.
PV-315  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Jefferson Memorial.
PV-316  
Year:1980s
Size:8" x 6"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: White House - North view.
PV-317  
Year:1980s
Size:5⅞" x 4½" (folded)
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Federal Reserve Building, brown ink.
PV-318  
Year:2010s
Size:5⅞" x 4½" (folded)
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet: IMAGE
Notes: Landmarks of Distinction - Capitol, SE View, brown ink.
PV-319  
Year:2010s
Size:5⅞" x 4½" (folded)
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet: IMAGE
Notes: Landmarks of Distinction - Dept. of the Treasury, brown ink.
PV-320  
Year:2010s
Size:5⅞" x 4½" (folded)
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet: IMAGE
Notes: Landmarks of Distinction - White House, SE View, brown ink.
PV-321  
Year:2010s
Size:5⅞" x 4½" (folded)
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet: IMAGE
Notes: Landmarks of Distinction - Lincoln Memorial, brown ink.
PV-322  
Year:2010s
Size:5⅞" x 4½" (folded)
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet: IMAGE
Notes: Landmarks of Distinction - Jefferson Memorial, brown ink.
PV-400  
Year:1950s
Size:7½" x 8½"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Great Seal of U.S., color litho.
PV-401  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 10"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Presidential seal, color litho.
PV-402  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 10"
Type:
Back:
Info sheet:
Notes: Dept. of Treasury Seal, color litho.
PV-403  
Year:1950s
Size:8" x 10"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Dept. of State seal, color litho.
PV-500  
Year:1950s
Size:26" x 31"
Type:other
Back:blank
Info sheet:none
Notes: Declaration of Independence, full size.
PV-501  
Year:1950s
Size:10" x 13"
Type:
Back:
Info sheet:
Notes: Gettyburg Address with Lincoln portrait.
PV-502  
Year:1950s
Size:11" x 14"
Type:
Back:
Info sheet:
Notes: u.S. Flag with Pledge of Allegiance, color litho.
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