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George Browne Post

Karl Theodore Francis Bitter
Sculpture
1910
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Lincoln and General B. F. Butler as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Adalbert John Volck
Print
19th century
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

George Washington Custis Lee

Irving Resnikoff as "Charles J. Fox"
Painting
c. 1920
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

John Otto Schweizer
Sculpture
c. 1915-35
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia

Cary Breckinridge

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1870-1918
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

General James Grant Wilson

George Rufus Boynton
Painting
1911
Owner: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

John Wilkes Booth

Pierre
Painting
c. 1865-1918
Owner: Harvard University/ Houghton Library

Portrait Bust of George Washington

Frederick A. Lawlor
Sculpture
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Westmoreland Museum of Art

General William Porcher Miles

Rudolph Bohunek
Painting
c. 1900-13
Owner: Louisiana Sugar Planters Association

Bishop George Randall

J. Harrison Mills
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Colorado History Museum

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

Gutzon Borglum
Sculpture
1917-1925

Bas-relief of General McClellan

John Quincy Adams Ward
Sculpture
mid 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Nelson Appleton Miles

Nelson Appleton Miles

Henry H. Cross
Painting
1910
Owner: Gilcrease Museum

Catherine Bates

S. Jerome Uhl
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Cincinnati Historical Society

John Frederick Hartranft

Julius Augustus Beck
Painting
c. 1870-1910
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Charles William Penn Brock

Charles William Penn Brock

John P. Walker
Painting
1911
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Winfield Scott Hancock

Winfield Scott Hancock

John Otto Schweizer
Sculpture
c. 1915-35
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia

Captain Sally Tompkins

Harriotte Lee Taliaferro
Painting
c. 1905-1910
Owner: Private collection

Salmon Portland Chase

Levi T. Scofield
Sculpture
c. 1865-1915
Owner: Ohio Statehouse

Rawley White Martin

George Thomas Brewster
Sculpture
1913
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Edwin McMasters Stanton

Levi T. Scofield
Sculpture
c. 1865-1915
Owner: Ohio Statehouse

California Pioneers

Joseph Jacinto Mora
Sculpture
1911?
Owner: City and County of San Francisco
Philip Henry Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan

John Quincy Adams Ward
Sculpture
c. 1900-10
Owner: American Academy of Arts and Letters
David Glasgow Farragut

David Glasgow Farragut

John Otto Schweizer
Sculpture
c. 1915-35
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia

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