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Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1865-1965
Owner: Valentine Museum

Arthur Curtiss James

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Abraham Lincoln

Ferenc Varga
Sculpture
n.d.a.
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum

Frieda Hempel

Arthur Lajos Halmi
Painting
20th century
Owner: Metropolitan Opera Association

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

M. Muller
Sculpture
c. 1860-1960
Owner: University of Virginia

Arthur Curtiss James

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

First to 37th US Presidents

Geneva M. Heron
Painting
1969
Owner: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Leonard Wells Volk
Sculpture
c. 1860-1960
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

M. Muller
Sculpture
mid 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: University of Virginia
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860-1960
Owner: Lafayette College

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

John W. Winkler
Painting
c. 1860-1960
Owner: University of Virginia

Abraham Lincoln

Sculpture
c. 1955 after 1865 original
Owner: Private collection

Abraham Lincoln

Sculpture
c. 1860-1960
Owner: Woodford County Sheriff's Office

John Marshall Harlan, Sr.

Phillip Ratner
Drawing
c. 1963
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States

John W. McLane

Moses Billings
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Erie Historical Museum and Planetarium

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Naval Historical Center

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
Lewis Cass

Lewis Cass

Unidentified Artist
Painting
Owner: U.S. Department of State
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Dreifuss
Sculpture
n.d.a.
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Phillip Ratner
Drawing
c. 1963
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

David Silvette
Painting
1961
Owner: Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1860-1960
Owner: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, National Park Service
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Clark Mills
Sculpture
n.d.a.
Owner: Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library & Museum (closed)

Uncle Billy Smith

Edward Percy Moran
Painting
c. 1862-1962
Owner: El Paso Museum of Art

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