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Elijah Veirs White

Elijah Veirs White

John P. Walker
Painting
1924
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Louisa May Alcott

Walton Ricketson
Sculpture
c. 1888-1923
Owner: Fruitlands Museums

Henry Ward Beecher

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1886-1925
Owner: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Arthur H. Dawson
Painting
c. 1880-1920
Owner: Union League Club of Chicago

Cora Linn Victoria Richmond

Adelaide Johnson
Sculpture
c. 1886-1920
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Lincoln, Grant and Sumner

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th-early 20th century
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Robert Edward Lee

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860-1920
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
Joseph Virginius Bidgood

Joseph Virginius Bidgood

John P. Walker
Painting
1924
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

John Wallace Hutchinson

Adelaide Johnson
Sculpture
c. 1886-1920
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1865-1920
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Gutzon Borglum
Sculpture
c. 1880-1920
Owner: The Henry Ford

Edwin Thomas Booth

Edmond Thomas Quinn
Sculpture
c. 1880-1929
Owner: Museum of the City of New York
Edmund Kirby Smith

Edmund Kirby Smith

John P. Walker
Painting
1923
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
William Gordon McCabe

William Gordon McCabe

Ellis Meyer Silvette
Painting
c. 1900-20
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Carl Ethan Akeley

Robert William Vonnoh
Painting
c. 1880-1926
Owner: American Museum of Natural History

William Wilson Corcoran

Joseph Pennell
Drawing
1885-1926
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont

Adelaide Johnson
Sculpture
c. 1886-1920
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

George Washington Veale

George Melville Stone
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Kansas Museum of History

Charles Goodall Snead

Mary Travis Burwell
Painting
1895-1925
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Newton Bateman

Adelaide Johnson
Sculpture
c. 1886-1920
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Walter Ernest Tittle
Drawing
1925
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Giles Buckner Cooke

Giles Buckner Cooke

Ellis Meyer Silvette
Painting
1927
Owner: Private collection

Russell Alexander Alger

Daniel Chester French
Sculpture
1920
Owner: Chesterwood

Patrick Morris Neff

Arvid Frederick Nyholm
Painting
c. 1886-1927
Owner: Texas State Library

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