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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Charles Henry Niehaus
Sculpture
n.d.a.
Owner: The White House

Robert E. Lee

Paul Howard Manship
Sculpture
1936
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Ernest Ludwig Ipsen
Painting
1931
Owner: U.S. Military Academy

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Charles Sydney Hopkinson
Painting
1932
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
1935
Owner: University of Pennsylvania

Samuel Johnson Crawford

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

First to 37th US Presidents

Geneva M. Heron
Painting
1969
Owner: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Bernard Sanders
Print
1932
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

George Washington

William Clark Noble
Sculpture
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Hattie Elizabeth Burdette
Painting
1938
Owner: Washington & Lee University
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daniel Chester French
Sculpture
c. 1879-1931
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Lafayette McLaws

Lafayette McLaws

Mary McPherson Wickliffe
Painting
1930
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Joseph Jefferson

Charles Henry Niehaus
Sculpture
n.d.a.
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
William McKinley

William McKinley

Will La F...
Sculpture
c. 1900-32
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Gladys Wheat
Silhouette
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: State Historical Society of Missouri
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860-1932
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

David Wilson Jordan

Susan Hannah Macdowell Eakins
Painting
1876-1938
Owner: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University

Lee and Two Unidentified Boys

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

General Robert E. Lee

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

George Washington Martin

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

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
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daniel Chester French
Sculpture
c. 1879-1931
Owner: Chesterwood

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