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Benjamin Franklin Butler

Thomas Nast
Drawing
mid 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Private collection
George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas

Jacques Reich
Drawing
c. 1899-1920
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Philip Henry Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan

Jacques Reich
Drawing
c. 1899-1920
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Andrew Gregg Curtin

Julius Augustus Beck
Painting
c. 1860-1900
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

John Selden Roane

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Arkansas State Capitol

Albert Pike

William Besser
Painting
1912
Owner: Arkansas History Commission

Robert Patterson

Albert Rosenthal
Painting
1900
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Carl Schurz

Karl Theodore Francis Bitter
Sculpture
1906
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Carl Schurz

Victor David Brenner
Medal
1907
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
William McKinley

William McKinley

H. J. Brand
Sculpture
1903
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

George Henry Story
Painting
c. 1865-1900
Owner: Smith College Museum of Art
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

William Thomas Mathews
Painting
19th-early 20th century
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

William Preston Johnston

Edward Virginius Valentine
Sculpture
Begun 1899
Owner: Valentine Museum

Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle

Joseph Jefferson
Silhouette
c. 1865-1900
Owner: Historic Hudson Valley
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Jacques Reich
Print
1908
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Oswald D. Reich

Carl Schurz

Arthur Von Ferraris
Painting
1900
Owner: National Carl Schurz Association
William McKinley

William McKinley

Thomas Fleming
Print
1901
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Lawrence Sullivan Ross

Elisabet Ney
Sculpture
1902
Owner: Elisabet Ney Museum
Edward Johnson

Edward Johnson

John P. Walker
Painting
1909
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Russell Alexander Alger

Carlo Romanelli
Sculpture
1909
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

James Henry Lane

John P. Walker
Painting
1908
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

John Chipman Gray

Frederic Porter Vinton
Painting
1907
Owner: Harvard Law School

Russell Alexander Alger

Carlo Romanelli
Sculpture
c. 1890-1900
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Caroline Shawk Brooks
Sculpture
c. 1860-1900
Owner: Chicago History Museum

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