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William Henry Lloyd

George Gibbs
Painting
1938
Owner: University of Pennsylvania
Ada

Ada "Bricktop" Smith

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
June 22, 1934
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Daniel Chester French

Walter Ernest Tittle
Drawing
c. 1905-31
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Arshile Gorky

David Davidovich Burliuk
Drawing
1930
Owner: Whitney Museum of American Art

Langston Hughes

Amy Einstein Spingarn
Drawing
1930
Owner: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell

William Auerbach-Levy
Drawing
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Rico Lebrun

Rico Lebrun
Painting
c. 1940
Owner: Santa Barbara Museum of Art
George Antheil

George Antheil

Aline Fruhauf
Drawing
c. 1935
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Erwin Vollmer
Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
June 17, 1939
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Theodore August Distler

Theodore August Distler

Leo O. Burstein
Painting
1934
Owner: Franklin and Marshall College
Floyd Gahman

Floyd Gahman

Wayman Elbridge Adams
Painting
c. 1943
Owner: National Academy of Design

Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugural medal

Walker Kirtland Hancock
Medal
1953
Owner: Leonard W. Hall
Miss Katharine Cornell

Miss Katharine Cornell

Aline Fruhauf
Print
1931
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Erwin Vollmer
Guy Pène Du Bois

Guy Pène Du Bois

Adolf Arthur Dehn
Drawing
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Edwin Mitman Hartman

Edwin Mitman Hartman

Vernon N. Newswanger
Painting
1932?
Owner: Franklin and Marshall College

Fritz Kreisler

Ivan Opffer
Drawing
1934
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Hjalmar Schacht

Hjalmar Schacht

Conrad Hommel
Print
1935
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
Joan Crawford in

Joan Crawford in "Rain"

Joseph Grant
Drawing
1932
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Carol Grubb and Jennifer Grant Castrup

Will Rogers and Elise Ford

Howard Chandler Christy
Painting
1935
Owner: Gilcrease Museum
Life with Father

Life with Father

Don Freeman
Drawing
c. 1939
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Lydia Freeman

Robert Emmet Sherwood

Enit Kaufman
Drawing
c. 1940-1947
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Fats Waller

Fats Waller

Alfred Bendiner
Drawing
c. 1941
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Princess Tsianina

Marie Hyde
Painting
1938
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of New Mexico)

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Robert Brackman
Painting
1938
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

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    • Adams, Wayman Elbridge  32
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    • Drawings  1816
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    • Exterior views  381
    • Prints  204
    • Miniatures  108
    • Mirrors  30
    • Medals  28
    • Maps  18
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    • Decorative arts  12
    • Sheet music  11
    • Travel guidebooks  7
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1560s  9
1570s  8
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Decorative arts  334
Dictionaries  2
Documents  178
Drawings  15411
Exterior views  6464
Jewelry  2
Maps  248
Medals  535
Miniatures  7645
Mirrors  233
Mixed media  75
Mosaics (visual works)  14
Paintings  71237
Periodicals  31
Photographs  13857
Positive Transparency  81
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