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Bessie Smith with the cast of a revue at the Paradise in Atlantic City

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1919
Owner: Duncan Preston Schiedt

Tullio Carminati and Miss Muriel Kirkland in "Strictly Dishonorable"

Ralph Barton
Drawing
c. 1929
Owner: The Players

John Duff McGilvray

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1900-20
Owner: Stanford University-Dispersed Art Collection

Henry Ford (with Edsel B. Ford)

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
1924
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Lincoln Steffens

Lincoln Steffens

Jo Davidson
Sculpture
1920
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Paul Whiteman

Paul Whiteman

William Auerbach-Levy
Drawing
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Hamlin Garland

Louis Betts
Painting
c. 1925-35
Owner: American Academy of Arts and Letters
Thomas Maitland Cleland

Thomas Maitland Cleland

Rockwell Kent
Print
1929
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Ezra Meeker

Louise Crow Boyac
Painting
1926
Owner: Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Ida Rubinstein

Jo Davidson
Sculpture
before 1922
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

Walter Ernest Tittle
Drawing
1924
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Harding inaugural medal

Darrell C. Crain
Medal
1921
Owner: John Coolidge

Simeon North

Clarence W. Snyder
Painting
1929
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Fritzi Scheff

Fritzi Scheff

Alfred J. Frueh
Print
c. 1915-22
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the children of Al Frueh - Barbara Frueh Bornemann, Robert Frueh and Alfred Frueh, Jr.
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Samuel Johnson Woolf
Drawing
1924
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist's daughters, Muriel Woolf Hobson and Dorothy Woolf Ahern

Cass Gilbert

Edmond Thomas Quinn
Sculpture
1925
Owner: University of Michigan
Will Rogers and W. C. Fields

Will Rogers and W. C. Fields

Edwin Marcus
Drawing
c. 1920-30
Owner: Will Rogers State Historic Park

Nickolas Muray

Edward Jean Steichen
Photograph
c. 1934
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mimi and Nicholas C. Muray
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr.

John Davison Rockefeller, Sr.

Timothy Cole
Print
1921
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Pierre Samuel Dupont

Pierre Samuel Dupont

Edwin Augustus Harleston
Painting
1924
Owner: State of Delaware, Bureau of Museums and Historic Sites

Gates White McGarrah

A. S. Nowell
Painting
c. 1920-30
Owner: Union League Club of New York
Edmund Thomas Quinn

Edmund Thomas Quinn

Albert Edward Sterner
Painting
1921
Owner: National Academy of Design
Warren Gamaliel Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Sally James Farnham
Sculpture
early-mid 20th century
Owner: Lafayette College
Junipero Serra

Junipero Serra

Unidentified Artist
Mosaic
1927
Owner: City and County of San Francisco

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    • United States. Army  438
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    • Photographs  441
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