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Henry Alexander Wise

Henry Alexander Wise

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company
Silhouette
1844
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

William Langenheim

William Langenheim
Photograph
c. 1853-55
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charles Christopher Trowbridge

Thomas Mickell Burnham
Painting
c. 1840-66
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts
Cornelius Felton and Alfred Hennen

Cornelius Felton and Alfred Hennen

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1844
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Thomas Buchanan Read
Painting
c. 1840-65
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
John Tyler

John Tyler

Sarah Miriam Peale
Painting
c. 1845-60
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

William Winston Valentine

William James Hubard
Painting
c. 1850-55
Owner: Valentine Museum
George Washington

George Washington

Adam B. Walter
Print
c. 1848-60
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Edgar L. Smith, Jr.
Winfield Scott and John Ellis Wool

Winfield Scott and John Ellis Wool

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1843
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.

Cyrus Field

Photograph
c. 1850-55
Owner: Library of Congress

Samuel Brannan (?)

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
n.d.a.
Owner: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
mid 19th century
Owner: The White House
James Madison

James Madison

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
c. 1844-60
Owner: American University
Henry Alexander Wise

Henry Alexander Wise

Charles Fenderich
Print
1840
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Library of Congress
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Samuel Hollyer
Print
c. 1854-55
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Washington Irving

John Plumbe
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: Library of Congress

William Franklin Switzler

George Caleb Bingham
Painting
1849
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1850-1860
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Rufus Wilmot Griswold

Charles Loring Elliott
Painting
c. 1850-1855
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Alexander Thorn, Photographer, Wearing Vest, Bow Tie and Jacket

J. P. Ball
Photograph
c. 1850s
Owner: Cincinnati Historical Society

Adelaide Ristori

Joseph Alexander Ames
Painting
1845-65
Owner: Harvard University Theatre Collection

Peter Silver

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1840-60
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

James Nevins

George Lethbridge Saunders
Painting
c. 1840-66
Owner: John Frazer, Jr.

Daniel Stanton

Charles Loring Elliott
Painting
c. 1850-1860
Owner: New-York Historical Society

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