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Nathaniel Prentice Banks

Nathaniel Prentice Banks

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

William Ives

Charles Osgood
Painting
c. 1850-65
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

William Garl Browne

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: Private collection

Richard Realf

J. B. Peacock
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Kansas Museum of History
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Henry Dmochowski Saunders
Sculpture
c. 1857
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Raphael Semmes

Raphael Semmes

Louis Prang Lithography Company
Print
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

William Sidney Mount

Shepard Alonzo Mount
Painting
c. 1857
Owner: Long Island Museum

Matthias William Baldwin

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1850-66
Owner: Presbyterian Historical Society

William Cullen Bryant

Daniel Huntington
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Franz Sigel

Franz Sigel

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Edwin Forrest as Baptista Febro and Lizzie Swindlehurst in

Edwin Forrest as Baptista Febro and Lizzie Swindlehurst in "The Broker of Bogota"

Mathew B. Brady
Photographic Negative
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Edwin Forrest Home for Retired Actors

Larkin P. Richardson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Alexander Dallas Bache

James Reid Lambdin
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: University of Pennsylvania
William Stanley Haseltine

William Stanley Haseltine

William Oliver Stone
Painting
c. 1861
Owner: National Academy of Design

Frederick Townsend Ward

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

William Hyslop Sumner

Wilson
Painting
c. 1857
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society
James Barton Longacre

James Barton Longacre

Isaac A. Rehn
Photograph
c. 1855
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Jasper Holman Lawman

Jasper Holman Lawman
Painting
c. 1855-60
Owner: Carnegie Museum of Art

Charles H. West

Juan Buckingham Wandesforde
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: California Historical Society

Amos Kendall

Daniel Huntington
Painting
1855-65
Owner: Dartmouth College
William Henry Appleton

William Henry Appleton

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
George Washington

George Washington

Clark Mills
Sculpture
c. 1858
Owner: National Academy of Design
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Dr. Thomas K. Todsen

Henry Parkman Sturgis

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Newport Historical Society

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