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The Purple Scarf

William Sherman Potts
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

Unidentified Woman

Charles Harold L. MacDonald
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: C. Timothy Miller Owner: David H. Ray
Philip Henry Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan

John Otto Schweizer
Sculpture
c. 1915-35
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia

Child in High Chair

Maria Judson Strean
Painting
c. 1875-1931
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

Wladimir B. Krzyzanowski

John Ward Dunsmore
Painting
late 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

David Glasgow Farragut

Cyrus W. Cole
Sculpture
1937
Owner: U.S. Naval Academy

Moroccan Head

Howard Russell Butler
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Thomas Sampson

Mary Evangeline Walker
Painting
1939
Owner: Naval Historical Center

Portrait of Alexander Spotswood

Emma Morehead Whitfield
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century

Robert Cavelier Lasalle

Alphonse Eugene Guilloux
Sculpture
c. 1875-1931
Owner: Dallas Historical Society
Sterling Price

Sterling Price

Frederick Cleveland Hibbard
Sculpture
c. 1920-30
Owner: Chicago History Museum

General Stonewall Jackson

Paul Howard Manship
Sculpture
1936
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

George Armstrong Custer

Elbridge Ayer Burbank
Drawing
c. 1925-35
Owner: Southwest Museum

Martin Luther

Arne K. Berger
Painting
late 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: Luther College

William Preston

Charles Xavier Harris
Painting
c. 1876-1936
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Captain Nowlan at Little Big Horn Battlefield

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
after 1876
Owner: National Archives

Head of a Woman

Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Unknown Owner

Woman Seated at Table

Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Cleveland Museum of Art

General George A. Custer

Ruth Joy Hopkins
Painting
1939
Owner: Wyoming State Museum

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

Julian Lamar
Painting
c. 1925-35
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States

James Ewell Brown Stuart

John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Painting
c. 1870-1938

Archibald Gracie

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1864-1937
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Head of a Girl

Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Drawing
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

John C. Fremont at Great Salt Lake

Lee Greene Richards
Painting
1934
Owner: Utah State Capitol

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