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Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton

Photograph
c. 1845-50
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Lucy Stone

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1854
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Boston Doctors

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

Cephas Giovanni Thompson

Cephas Giovanni Thompson
Painting
early 1840s
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Tudor Place Foundation, Inc.

Jefferson Davis

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Private Collection

Bust of James Fenimore Cooper

Thomas Coffee
Sculpture
c. 1840-51
Owner: Unknown Owner
Charles Chambers

Charles Chambers

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1853
Owner: Private collection

Louis Joseph Bahin

Louis Joseph Bahin
Painting
c. 1847
Owner: Mrs. Bess Holden Bahin Parsons

John Collins Warren

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
late 1840s
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Josiah Johnson Hawes

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1845-50
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Hickling Prescott

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

Elijah F. Smith

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-55
Owner: City of Rochester, City Hall
Philander chase

Philander chase

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1845-52
Owner: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

George Washington

Alfred Jacob Miller
Painting
c. 1847
Owner: Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

Gov. Charles Paine

Chester Harding
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Brown Public Library

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Jane Stuart
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Anschutz Collection
William Woolsey Scarborough

William Woolsey Scarborough

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

Lyman Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1852-55
Owner: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Josiah Quincy

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: Museum of Modern Art

Seth Wells Cheney

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

George Washington (Porthole type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1852

Colonel Sessums and Colonel James Spencer Bailey

Silhouette
c. 1843-57
Owner: Sally Stone Trotter

Pocahontas Saving Captain John Smith

Alonzo Chappel
Painting
c. 1849
Owner: William H. Duncan

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