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Mary Ann Polk Gorter

Matthew Wilson
Painting
c. 1847
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Samuel Elton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Mattatuck Museum of the Mattatuck Historical Society

The Fisher Boy

Hiram Powers
Sculpture
1841-44; this version 1857
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Joseph W. Copeland (?)

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jame K. Polk with his Wife Sarah Childress Polk

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1846-48
Owner: James K. Polk Memorial Association

Catherine Hubbard Blanchard Hoyt

Albert Gallatin Hoit
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Sandwich (NH) Historical Society
Ellen Black

Ellen Black

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1851
Owner: Mrs. Louis Battey

Scholars of the Emerson School for Girls

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ebenezer Coe

Ebenezer Coe

Mr. Black
Painting
c. 1851

Abdil Daily Crossman

Phineas Staunton
Painting
c. 1847
Owner: UNLOCATED

Joseph Reed

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-52
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

William Augustus Trumbull

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1853
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Sarah Eliza Smith Shurtleff

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House

Elderly Woman in Black Cape and Bonnet

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean Macdonald Lee Myers

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center

Samuel Larned

Charles Loring Elliott
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse & Onondaga County

Unidentified Woman and Child

Henry Walton
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Shelburne Museum

Lewis Lee Morris

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1845-50
Owner: Private collection

Elizabeth Wood

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Tate House

Portrait of a Lady

George Freeman
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stephen Edson Paine

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1852
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Thomas Bartow Sargent

George Lethbridge Saunders
Painting
c. 1848
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

William Rockhill

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Elizabeth Winston Price and Ann Overton Price

Anne Overton Price
Painting
c. 1851
Owner: T. H. Campbell Jr.

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