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John Murray Corse

John Murray Corse

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
John Buchanan Floyd

John Buchanan Floyd

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1861-62
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Five Maya Indians

George Catlin
Painting
1855/1869
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Crazy Nora

William E. Winner
Painting
c. 1850-65
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

John D'Wolf

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Brown University
Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

Charles DeForest Fredricks
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. F.B. Wilde

Henry Stowe

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Webster Lindsly

Webster Lindsly

Charles Bird King
Painting
c. 1858
Owner: Mrs. Joseph W. Hazell

Adams Family

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1850-60
Owner: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center

Emily Warner Drew Thompson

George Caleb Bingham
Painting
c. 1859-60
Owner: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Michael Henry Donovan

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

William Warner Hoppin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: State of Rhode Island

Portrait of Albert Post

Winslow Homer
Painting
c. 1864
Owner: de Young Museum

Study of Sally Foster Otis for "Lady Washington's Reception"

Daniel Huntington
Drawing
c. 1860
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

James Johnston Pettigrew

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: University of North Carolina, Philanthropic Society

Unidentified Children (reading)

Thomas Sully
Painting
1850-60
Owner: Private collection

Sophia Nash Knowlson

Abel Buel Moore
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: Rensselaer County Historical Society

William Morris Meredith

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia

James Bogle, Jr.

James A. Bogle
Painting
c. 1862
Benjamin McCulloch

Benjamin McCulloch

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1861-62
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Juliet Eyre (Markley)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Private Collection

Mrs. George Starr

Charles Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Maria Smith Tod

John Claude Crawford
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: The Butler Institute of American Art
Mrs. Ulysses S. (Julia Dent) Grant

Mrs. Ulysses S. (Julia Dent) Grant

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

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