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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Isaac Broome
Sculpture
1857-1858
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

George Peabody

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
Emma Hart Willard

Emma Hart Willard

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1900 (after c. 1850 daguerreotype)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Emma Willard School
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Barnum Museum
George Washington

George Washington

Edward Virginius Valentine
Sculpture
c. 1858-1900
Owner: Valentine Museum
George Washington

George Washington

Robertson
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

Anne Whitney
Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Hilary Baker

Julius Augustus Beck
Painting
c. 1858-1908
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

John Hardy Steele

Adna Tenney
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: State of New Hampshire

Jenny Lind

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: UNLOCATED

William Gannaway Brownlow

Flavius James Fisher
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Tennessee State Museum

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

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

Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Print
19th century
Owner: Dartmouth College
James B. White

James B. White

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th-19th century
Owner: Private collection
Junius Brutus Booth

Junius Brutus Booth

Eastman Johnson
Painting
c. 1852-1906
Owner: Anonymous Owner: Henry C. White

James Garfield

Aaron Dean Fletcher
Painting
late 19th century
Owner: Walter J Morrison III

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 19th century
Owner: Michael Hall

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
1850-1900
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Governor William Gilpin

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

Abraham Lincoln

Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Painting
late 19th century
Owner: Gettysburg National Military Park
Stephen Decatur

Stephen Decatur

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: U.S. Military Academy

Portrait of the Artist's Father

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
Painting
19th century
Owner: Smithsonian Institution

Peter Paul Rubens Byrd

Henry Byrd
Painting
late 19th century
Owner: James Byrd

Three Heads (from upper left corner of the Coast Survey Plate No. 1)

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

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