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Joaquin Carrillo

Joaquin Carrillo

Leonardo Barbieri
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Santa Barbara Historical Society
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1800-50
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
John Cabell Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge

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

Samuel B. Meader

Willard
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Nantucket Historical Association
Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips

Leopold Grozelier
Print
c. 1855
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Elisha Chase

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Eleazer Thompson Fitch

Eleazer Thompson Fitch

William Oliver Stone
Painting
1851
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Millard Fillmore

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Edwin Forrest as Richelieu

Edwin Forrest as Richelieu

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

Abraham Lincoln

Nicholas Todoroff
Painting
1855-65
Owner: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Edwards Amasa Park

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
c. 1853
Owner: Library of Congress
Millard Filmore

Millard Filmore

Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: Chicago History Museum

First Thoughts of "Boone's View of Kentucky"

William Tylee Ranney
Drawing
c. 1849
Owner: J. B. Speed Art Museum

Nathaniel William Taylor

Sculpture
c. 1860
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Sarah Goodridge

Sarah Goodridge
Painting
c. 1840-45
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

Elias Howe

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
John Walker Maury

John Walker Maury

Leopold Grozelier
Print
1855
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

George Washington Doane

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-70
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Cyrus West Field

Cyrus West Field

Charles DeForest Fredricks
Photograph
c. 1863
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Ezra Meeker

Harriet Foster Beecher
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Museum of History and Industry

Self-Portrait

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
1852
Owner: High Museum of Art
James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana

Rudolf Hoffmann
Print
1857
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Edward Everett

M. L. Ohr studio
Photograph
c. 1857
Owner: Harvard University Archives

Peter Van Pelt Coppuck

Matthew Wilson
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: New-York Historical Society

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