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Junipero Serra

Douglas Tilden
Sculpture
c. 1880-1935
Owner: St. Mary's College

George Vancouver

Philip Leslie Hale
Painting
c. 1885-1931
Owner: Bishop Museum

Lee and Two Unidentified Boys

Carl Wilhelm Emil Milles
Sculpture
c. 1930
Owner: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum

Silas Weir Mitchell

William Ordway Partridge
Sculpture
c. 1880-1930
Owner: Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia

General Robert E. Lee

Selma Moeller
Painting
1935
Owner: U.S. Cavalry Museum

General Lee Surrendering to General Grant

Sargent Beartom
Drawing
1939
Owner: Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1860-1933
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Henry Lee Higginson

Aiden Lassell Ripley
Painting
c. 1903-35
Owner: Harvard University/ Harvard Club of Boston
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

John Otto Schweizer
Sculpture
c. 1915-35
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Alice Matilda Reading
Painting
c. 1889-1939
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Foster Dwight Coburn

George Melville Stone
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Kansas Museum of History

Samuel Johnson Crawford

George Melville Stone
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Kansas Museum of History
Edwin Booth and Henry Irving in Othello

Edwin Booth and Henry Irving in Othello

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1881
Owner: The Players

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Walter Greaves
Drawing
c. 1880-1930
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Lewis Wallace

Cornelius Christian Zwaan
Painting
1938?
Owner: The Lilly Library, Indiana University
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Clara Sipprell
Photograph
1935
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Phyllis Fenner

Self-Portrait -- Caricature

George Benjamin Luks
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Milwaukee Art Museum
Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

John Massey Rhind
Sculpture
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: UNLOCATED

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daniel Chester French
Sculpture
after 1884
Owner: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
Arthur Herbert

Arthur Herbert

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company

Maria Sophia Fernald Tarbell

Edmund Charles Tarbell
Painting
late 19th-mid 20th century

Interior with Mother and Child

Edmund Charles Tarbell
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens

Dave Lant

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Pinkerton's Inc.

James Walker Fannin, Jr.

Julius Stockfleth
Painting
c. 1885-1935
Owner: Daughters of Republic Texas at Alamo Library

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