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John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1855-65
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Joseph W. Copeland (?)

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

Molly & Breakfast

Larry Rivers
Painting
1856?
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Edward Augustus Quintard

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-55
Owner: Private Collection

Charles Mason

George Henry Yewell
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Iowa State Historical Museum

Dr. A. T. Chester (D.D.)

Lars Gustaf Sellstedt
Painting
1853
Owner: Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Portrait of a Mother And Child

C. Winter
Painting
1853
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

Tootoomitch

William Warner Major
Painting
1852
Owner: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Ki-ho-ga-wah-shu-shee

George Catlin
Drawing
1852
Owner: Newberry Library

Louis Powell Harvey

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: State Historical Society of Wisconsin
David Sears

David Sears

Henry Cheever Pratt
Painting
1858
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Jame K. Polk with his Wife Sarah Childress Polk

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1846-48
Owner: James K. Polk Memorial Association

Milton Slocum Latham

Randolph Rogers
Sculpture
c. 1860
Owner: de Young Museum

Catherine Hubbard Blanchard Hoyt

Albert Gallatin Hoit
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Sandwich (NH) Historical Society
Ellen Black

Ellen Black

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1851
Owner: Mrs. Louis Battey

Scholars of the Emerson School for Girls

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
F. P. Da Terra Brun Da Silveira

F. P. Da Terra Brun Da Silveira

William Morris Hunt
Painting
1858
Owner: Toledo Museum of Art
Wade Hampton

Wade Hampton

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ebenezer Coe

Ebenezer Coe

Mr. Black
Painting
c. 1851
Edwin Bartlett Carleton

Edwin Bartlett Carleton

Jonathan Treadwell
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society
Amelia Hyde Whitney

Amelia Hyde Whitney

Benjamin Franklin Mason
Painting
1850
Owner: Woodstock Historical Society

George Steers

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

Abdil Daily Crossman

Phineas Staunton
Painting
c. 1847
Owner: UNLOCATED
Hattie Walton McCord

Hattie Walton McCord

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1863
Owner: Private collection

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