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Officers of Our Union Army and Navy

Officers of Our Union Army and Navy

Louis Prang Lithography Company
Book
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Phillis Wheatley (frontispiece to

Phillis Wheatley (frontispiece to "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral")

Unidentified Artist
Book
1773
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Phillis Wheatley

Unidentified Artist
Book
1773
Owner: Library of Congress, Rare Books & Special Collections Division
Frontispiece to

Frontispiece to "Memoir of Phillis Wheatley"

Unidentified Artist
Book
c. 1834
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Donald Fenn
Frontispiece to

Frontispiece to "A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery"

John Cochran
Book
1843
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Elizabeth Keckley (frontispiece to

Elizabeth Keckley (frontispiece to "Behind the Scenes")

Unidentified Artist
Book
c. 1868
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
W. Wells Brown (frontispiece to

W. Wells Brown (frontispiece to "The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad"

Richard Woodman
Book
1855
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Peter (cover of

Peter (cover of "The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop on Negro Slavery at the South")

Unidentified Artist
Book
1863
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of an anonymous donor
Frontispiece to

Frontispiece to "Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown"

Robert Langton
Book
1851
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Solomon in His Plantation Suit (frontispiece to

Solomon in His Plantation Suit (frontispiece to "Twelve Years a Slave")

Nathaniel Orr
Book
1854
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Frontispiece to

Frontispiece to "Narrative of James Williams"

Patrick Henry Reason
Book
1838
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Harriet Tubman (frontispiece to

Harriet Tubman (frontispiece to "Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman")

John G. Darby
Book
c. 1868
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Sketchbook Containing Ten Drawings of David E. Finley

Sketchbook Containing Ten Drawings of David E. Finley

Gardner Cox
Book
c. 1960
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Phyllis B. Cox
Sketchbook Containing Nineteen Drawings of Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.

Sketchbook Containing Nineteen Drawings of Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.

Gardner Cox
Book
1968
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Phyllis B. Cox

Seven Passages to a Flight

Faith Ringgold
Book
1998
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Frontispiece to

Frontispiece to "The Story of the Jubilee Singers: With Their Songs"

Unidentified Artist
Book
1875
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Sketchbook Containing Twelve Drawings of Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.

Sketchbook Containing Twelve Drawings of Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.

Gardner Cox
Book
1968
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Phyllis B. Cox
Jenkins (frontispiece to

Jenkins (frontispiece to "The Art of Writing")

Peter Maverick
Book
1813
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

James Abott McNeill Whistler: Sketches and Letters

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Book
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader

Book
1866
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens

Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company
Book
1844
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

"The Vision of Columbus" by Joel Barlow

Book
1787
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Barlow

"The Columbiad" by Joel Barlow

Book
1807
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Barlow

Carte de visite album of 50 Confederate leaders

Unidentified Artist
Book
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Totten family; conserved with a grant from the Smithsonian Women's Committee

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