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White House: Washington - Truman

J. B. McCoy
Painting
c. 1975
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum

Lilian Nordica

William Ordway Partridge
Sculpture
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Metropolitan Opera Association

Portrait of Robert E. Lee

Ernest Ludwig Ipsen
Painting
1931
Owner: Hackett Galleries

Wild Bill Hickok

Robert Ottokar Lindneux
Painting
1933
Owner: Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave

John Baytop Cary

Adele Williams
Painting
c. 1890-1936
Owner: College of William & Mary

Bing Abbott

William Herbert Dunton
Drawing
early 20th century
Owner: Stark Museum of Art

Chapman Ballard

William Herbert Dunton
Drawing
early 20th century
Owner: Stark Museum of Art

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Edgardo G. F. Simone
Sculpture
1930

Doll -- "General Grant"

Rex F. Bush
Painting
c. 1937
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Marquis De Lafayette

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

Samuel Ryan Curtis

Edmund Charles Tarbell
Painting
1931
Owner: U.S. Military Academy

Chester Isaiah Long

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

George Gordon Meade

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

Elizabeth Collins Lee

Alice Matilda Reading
Painting
c. 1879-1934
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Head of a Woman

Head of a Woman

Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Susannah Smith Preston

Charles Xavier Harris
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas

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

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1870-1930
Owner: Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

My Mother

Katherine Smith Myrick
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

William Booth Taliaferro

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1870-1930
Owner: College of William & Mary

Portrait of Mrs. Alexander Spotswood

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

Richard Bland Lee

Alice Matilda Reading
Painting
c. 1879-1934
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Capt. Miles Keogh

Ella Klauber Wormser
Photograph
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Custer Battlefield Museum
John Lamb

John Lamb

James Francis Banks
Painting
1939
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

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