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William Wolcott Ellsworth

George Frederick Wright
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Museum of Connecticut History

Warren Thayer

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Mary Barnard Swayne

William Marshall Swayne
Sculpture
c. 1850-60
Owner: Chester County Historical Society

William Ide Brown

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Brown University

Edward Marmaduke, at the age of 3

James F. Wilkins
Painting
c. 1863
Owner: Private Collection
Albert Gallatin Brown

Albert Gallatin Brown

McClees & Vannerson
Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries; gift of Roger F. Shultis, 1986

Algernon Sidney Howland

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Old Dartmouth Historical Society /New Bedford Whaling Museum

Margaret and Anne E. Henderson

George Linen
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

John Albion Andrew

William Morris Hunt
Painting
1857-67
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society
John F. Reynolds

John F. Reynolds

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1858-59
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

William Alfred Buckingham

Henry Dexter
Sculpture
c. 1860
Owner: Museum of Connecticut History

Carrie Nutt and Mary Ella Nutt

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1850-67
Owner: Pilgrimage Garden Club

Thomas Bronk

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1857
Owner: New York State Historical Association

Ellen Cecelia Turner Detwiler

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
Painting
c. 1855-65

Orejona Chief and Family

George Catlin
Painting
1854/1869
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Mrs. James Decatur Loomis

Charles Soule
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Dayton Art Institute

Kate M. Bowne Kellinger

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Museum of the City of New York
St. James (Jacob)

St. James (Jacob)

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

John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company
Print
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
John Brown

John Brown

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1857 (after c. 1855 daguerreotype)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Solomon Sturgis

Hiram Powers
Sculpture
c. 1862
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Elizabeth G. Howard

Henry Pollock
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Mary Field Dunbar

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1855
Owner: Douglass McQueen Jr.
Howell Cobb

Howell Cobb

Karl Percival
Painting
c. 1855-65
Owner: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

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