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William Morris Hunt

Jane Maria Leavitt Hunt
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Bennington Museum

Daniel Webster

Robert Ball Hughes
Drawing
c. 1852-68
Owner: Andover Center for History and Culture
Robert Augustus Toombs

Robert Augustus Toombs

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

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
c. 1860
Owner: Freer Gallery of Art
Henry Alexander Wise

Henry Alexander Wise

Whitehurst Studio
Photograph
c. 1857
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Edward Everett

Edward Everett

Currier & Ives Lithography Company
Print
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Dr. Fred W. Hicks, III

John Cranch

John Cranch
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Franz Sigel

Franz Sigel

Henry Bruckner
Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Charles Manning Reed

Charles Manning Reed

Moses Billings
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: County of Erie

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Alexander Johnston
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Bowdoin College
Clara Louise Kellogg

Clara Louise Kellogg

Jeremiah Gurney & Sons
Photograph
c. 1863
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

James Fenimore Cooper

Alonzo Chappel
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Chicago History Museum

George Peabody

James Reid Lambdin
Painting
c. 1855-65
Owner: Addison Gallery of American Art
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Leonard Wells Volk
Sculpture
c. 1860
Owner: Berkshire Museum
Jessie Benton Frémont

Jessie Benton Frémont

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1863
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

John Butler

Matthew Wilson
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Antiquarian and Landmarks Society, Inc.

Samuel Watson Bent

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Fruitlands Museums
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
c. 1860s
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Horace Henry Baxter

Horace Henry Baxter

Thomas Le Clear
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: Vermont Historical Society

Catlin and Two Companions Shooting Buffalo

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

Matthias William Baldwin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-66
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
John A. Whipple

John A. Whipple

John Adams Whipple
Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. West
Luther Terry

Luther Terry

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Sandra and Jacob Terner

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