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Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation

Adalbert John Volck
Drawing
1861-63
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Doll -- "General Grant"

Rex F. Bush
Painting
c. 1937
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Robert E. Lee

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
1846-1848
Owner: Private Collection
George McDuffie

George McDuffie

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1861-62
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Robert Rawes

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Mr. & Mrs. Marion Smith

Edward Meigs Smith

Grove Sheldon Gilbert
Painting
c. 1865-84
Owner: City of Rochester, City Hall

Ulysses S. Grant

Unidentified Artist
Painting
Owner: Capt. Rodion Cantacuzene

Portrait of John Durrie

George Henry Durrie
Painting
mid 19th century

Nicholas Johnson Gilmer

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1850s or early 1860s
Owner: Elizabeth T. Nicholson

Audley Clark Britton

William Bienville Rhodes
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: Britton and Koontz National Bank

Hugh Laing

Thomas Buchanan Read
Painting
c. 1856-66
Owner: Private collection

Self-portrait

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
c. 1872
Owner: Private collection

Loammi Baldwin II

Chester Harding
Painting
before 1866
Owner: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Cullen Bryant

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
before 1878
Owner: Mabel Thérèse Bonney

William Tecumseh Sherman

Daniel Huntington
Painting
1875
Owner: Pentagon, U.S. Department of Defense

Augustus Schell

Eastman Johnson
Painting
c. 1870
Owner: Litchfield Historical Society and Museum

Alexander H. Stephens

George W. Minnis
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of John O'Brien

Abram Keller Shaifer

Thomas Cantwell Healy
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: Sanfrid B. Shaifer

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Buchanan Read
Painting
c. 1863
Owner: Private Collection
Tennessee Claflin

Tennessee Claflin

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1865
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Cornelius Conway Felton

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1855-60
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Voltaire

Edmonia Lewis
Sculpture
c. 1864-65
Owner: UNLOCATED

Portrait of John C. Breckinridge

Unidentified Artist
Painting
Owner: Private Collection

Allan Pinkerton

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1866
Owner: Pinkerton's Inc.

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    • Photographs  6933
    • Paintings  5616
    • Sculpture  1035
    • Prints  815
    • Exterior views  722
    • Drawings  612
    • Miniatures  275
    • Medals  47
    • Maps  39
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