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Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Darius Cobb
Painting
c. 1880-90
Owner: Lowell Historical Society
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1880-90
Owner: Lowell Historical Society
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1880-90
Owner: Lowell Historical Society

Charles Burgess Fry

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
c. 1893
Owner: UNLOCATED
Storming Fort Wagner

Storming Fort Wagner

Kurz & Allison Lithography Company
Print
1890
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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

Portrait of Queen Lili`uokalani

William F. Cogswell
Painting
c. 1891-92
Owner: Hawai'i State Archives
Christian Abraham Fleetwood

Christian Abraham Fleetwood

Merritt & VanWagner
Photograph
c. 1890
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Sallie E. Garrity
Photograph
c. 1893
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Frederick Douglass

Edmonia Lewis
Sculpture
c. 1887
Owner: UNLOCATED
Thomas Lewis Johnson

Thomas Lewis Johnson

Debenham & Gould
Photograph
c. 1890
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

David Lewis

Benjamin Rutherford Fitz
Painting
c. 1889
Owner: Mutual Assurance Company

Edward Virginius Valentine

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
1880-90
Owner: Valentine Museum
Paul Wayland Bartlett

Paul Wayland Bartlett

Charles Sprague Pearce
Painting
c. 1890
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Caroline Peter (Mrs. Armistead Peter III), 1958

George Willoughby Maynard

Julian Alden Weir
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: National Academy of Design

George R. Skolfield

Emory Jones
Sculpture
c. 1885
Owner: The Mariners' Museum
James Harvey Young

James Harvey Young

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1888
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Sandra and Jacob Terner

Douglass Morgan Hall

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
Painting
c. 1889
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

William Carter Wickham

Cornelius Haly Hankins
Painting
1897
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
John Insley Blair

John Insley Blair

Olin Levi Warner
Sculpture
c. 1880-96
Owner: New Jersey Historical Society

William Hance Macdowell

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
Painting
c. 1891
Owner: Baltimore Museum of Art
Thomas Taylor Munford

Thomas Taylor Munford

Bernhard Gutmann
Painting
1898
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
William McKinley

William McKinley

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
1896
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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