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John Chipman Gray

Frederic Porter Vinton
Painting
1907
Owner: Harvard Law School
William McKinley

William McKinley

Carl Ludwig Boeckmann
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: Ohio Historical Society
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
Owner: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

William F. Cogswell
Painting
1879
Owner: Union League Club of Chicago

Joseph Pulitzer

Alfred Houghton Clark
Painting
Owner: Archives, University of Kansas

Russell Alexander Alger

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

Aaron Lopez

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1865-82
Owner: American Jewish Historical Society
General Grant and His Family

General Grant and His Family

John Sartain
Print
1868
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Gouldsboro Historical Society and Dorcas Library of Prospect Harbor, Maine
Rush C. Hawkins

Rush C. Hawkins

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

George Henry Story
Painting
1869
Owner: Chicago History Museum

First to 37th US Presidents

Geneva M. Heron
Painting
1969
Owner: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
William T. Sherman

William T. Sherman

Napoleon Sarony
Photograph
c. 1885
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Marvin Sadik

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Thomas Le Clear
Painting
1881?
Owner: The White House

Robert E. Lee

Benjamin Franklin Reinhardt
Painting
1862
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Adolfo Müller-Ury
Painting
1897
Owner: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
James F. Fagan

James F. Fagan

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
William McKinley

William McKinley

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
The Peacemakers

The Peacemakers

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
1868?
Owner: The White House

Major Henry Lee Higginson

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
1911
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Martin Milmore
Sculpture
1865-83
Owner: New Bedford Free Public Library
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Bernard Sanders
Print
1932
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

General Grant and his family

P. S. Duval & Son Lithography Co.
Print
1866
Owner: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

Soldiers of the Second Kansas Cavalry in 1861

George Melville Stone
Painting
1912
Owner: Kansas Museum of History

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