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Thomas Lawson

Flavius James Fisher
Painting
1883
Owner: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Alonzo Lafayette Phillips

Alonzo Lafayette Phillips

Alphaeus Philemon Cole
Painting
1926
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Nathaniel Barrell

Charlotte Sewall Eastman
Painting
1880

Cecil Calvert

Charles A. Muller
Drawing
1888
Owner: U.S. Naval Academy

Hugh McCulloch

Carl J. Becker
Painting
1887
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection
Washington at Dorchester Heights

Washington at Dorchester Heights

Jane Stuart
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House
George Browne Post

George Browne Post

Edwin Howland Blashfield
Painting
1909
Owner: National Academy of Design

Drawing for Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
1885-86
Owner: Tate Gallery
Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale

James Wallace Black
Photograph
c. 1875
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Samuel Addison Bishop

Samuel Addison Bishop

Jules Tavernier
Painting
c. 1870-80
Owner: San Jose Historical Museum
President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan on Battle-Field of Antietam

President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan on Battle-Field of Antietam

Alexander Gardner
Photograph
October 3, 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Caspar Wistar

Samuel Bell Waugh
Painting
c. 1840-80
Owner: University of Pennsylvania

George Washington Littlefield

E. Cerracchio
Painting
c. 1900-20
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

John Wentworth

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1870-80
Owner: Sandwich (NH) Historical Society

Oliver Otis Howard

Henry H. Cross
Painting
Owner: Gilcrease Museum
John McCausland

John McCausland

John P. Walker
Painting
1926
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Alice Chase and Daughter

William Merritt Chase
Painting
1888?
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Johanna Runge

Elisabet Ney
Sculpture
1887?
Owner: Elisabet Ney Museum
Jerimiah Tilford Boyle

Jerimiah Tilford Boyle

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1860-70
Owner: Kentucky Historical Society

George William Curtis

Caroline Amelia Cranch
Painting
c. 1870-80
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Joseph Wheeler

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1898
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Mary Wright Sewall

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

Julian Shakespeare Carr

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: University of North Carolina, Dialectic Society

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    • Photographs  1231
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    • Drawings  917
    • Prints  590
    • Exterior views  471
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