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Benjamin Franklin Butler

Thomas Nast
Drawing
mid 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Private collection

John Selden Roane

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Arkansas State Capitol
John J. O'Fallon

John J. O'Fallon

George Calder Eichbaum
Painting
before 1909
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Peter Cooper

Unidentified Artist
Unknown
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
George Washington (Athenaeum type reversed)

George Washington (Athenaeum type reversed)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Warren
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Peter Cooper

Unidentified Artist
Unknown
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Study of Peter Cooper for "The Atlantic Cable Projectors"

Daniel Huntington
Drawing
c. 1858-1906
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

George Peabody

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
George Washington

George Washington

Wedgwood and Sons
Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Peter Cooper

Thomas Coffee
Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Brooklyn Historical Society

Hiram Powers

Longworth Powers
Sculpture
late 19th century
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Alvah Bradish
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: University of Michigan
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Hannah Easterbrooks Gladding
Decorative Arts
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Dartmouth College
George Washington

George Washington

Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Longfellow National Historic Site

David Morrison

August A. Lagenbahn
Sculpture
mid 19th-early 20th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Ben De Bar as Toodles

Edward Lump
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Bert Gallery
James Madison

James Madison

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Hampden-Sydney College

Stephen Fuller Austin

Elisabet Ney
Sculpture
c. 1853-1907
Owner: Texas State Library

Carlyle Possibly Thomas Carlyle

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Medal
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Laban Morey Wheaton

Harvey B. Young
Painting
c. 1858-1901
Owner: Wheaton College

Henry Crow

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Colorado History Museum

Grenville Mellen Dodge

William F. Cogswell
Painting
mid 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Historic General Dodge House

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