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St. Andrew

St. Andrew

Meade Brothers Studio
Photograph
c. 1860 (after 1853 daguerreotype)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Emerson Lyons

Robert North Carnan

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Nathan Bourne Crocker

Daniel Huntington
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Brown University
Klahoquaht Chief, His Wife, and Son

Klahoquaht Chief, His Wife, and Son

George Catlin
Painting
1855/1869
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Horatio Bridge

Eastman Johnson
Painting
1856-68
Owner: William Benton Museum of Art

William Wallace Taylor Greenway

Charles Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

William H. Bolling

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1859
Owner: Woodrow Wilson House, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Caroline Elizabeth Carlberg Chase

A. Van Der Borght
Painting
c. 1855-65
Owner: Old Dartmouth Historical Society /New Bedford Whaling Museum

William Wallace Taylor, Jr.

Richard Morell Staigg
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Walters Art Museum

Henry Knox Newcomb

Eliza Goodridge
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: American Antiquarian Society
Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-65
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

William James Dickerson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1856
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Azarelia Greene* Van Zandt

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
c. 1855-65
Owner: Newport Historical Society

Electa Susannah Brace Hotchkiss

Ammi Phillips
Painting
c. 1855-60
Owner: Torrington Historical Society, Inc.

Joseph Williams

Alexander Hamilton Emmons
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Slater Memorial Museum

John Peay Hammond and His Dog "Bounce"

Henry Byrd
Painting
c. 1858
Owner: Virginia Rohde

Simon Bolivar

John Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1858
Owner: Public Design Commission of the City of New York

Katherine Barclay Reading

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1859
Owner: Private collection
Mrs. Ulysses S. Julia Dent Grant

Mrs. Ulysses S. Julia Dent Grant

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Mrs. William Allen Fuller

Mrs. William Allen Fuller

John Maier
Painting
c. 1862
Owner: Private Collection

Elisha Oscar Crosby

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: California State Library

Eugene Boudreaux

John Genin
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Louisiana State Museum
John H. Gourlie

John H. Gourlie

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Salmon Portland Chase

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1864
Owner: U.S. Department of Treasury

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