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Samuel Marsh

Samuel Marsh

Harrison Lorenzo Plummer
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: New York State Museum

Maria Jones Stimson Clarke

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection

Nicholas E. Paine

Grove Sheldon Gilbert
Painting
c. 1845-60
Owner: City of Rochester, City Hall

Hiram Wesley Dixon

Jefferson Gauntt
Painting
1840-1860
Owner: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester

Portrait of Jenny Lind

Maria Christiana Rohl
Drawing
c. 1840-60
Owner: National Museum, Stockholm

Augustus Henry Hayden

Charles Fraser
Painting
1844
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Robert E. Lee

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
1846-1848
Owner: Private Collection

William Warren, Actor

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
1845-61
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

George Edmund Badger

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
mid 19th century
Owner: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

Hamblin Stilwell

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-60
Owner: City of Rochester, City Hall

Benjamin Franklin

John Cruikshanks King
Decorative Arts
mid 19th century
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jessie Benton Freemont

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850s
Owner: Private Collection

Dr. Paul Beck Goddard

Edward Bowers
Painting
c. 1840-69
Owner: Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Gouverneur Kemble Warren

Gouverneur Kemble Warren

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchase funded by the photography acquisitions endowment established by the Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz Memorial Foundation

Mrs. Pinckney

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-60

Henry Whiting

Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: James L. Kochan

Charles S. Frailey

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-60
Owner: Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, District of Columbia
Benjamin Gratz Brown

Benjamin Gratz Brown

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Liberty Hall Museum

Man with Fur Collar

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
1845-61
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Washington Wingate Munsell

Thomas Skynner
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

David Richardson

William James Hubard
Drawing
c. 1840-60
Owner: Valentine Museum

Portrait of an Old Lady

Thomas Hicks
Painting
c. 1847-67
Owner: Baltimore Museum of Art
Gideon Johnson Pillow

Gideon Johnson Pillow

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: James K. Polk Memorial Association

Herbert A. Claiborne

James Westhall Ford
Painting
c. 1840-50

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