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General Winfield Scott

General Winfield Scott

Alfred K. Kipps
Print
c. 1861-63
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Edwin Forrest

Edwin Forrest

Mathew B. Brady
Photographic Negative
1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Edwin Forrest Home for Retired Actors
Mathew B. Brady

Mathew B. Brady

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Proclamation of Emancipation

Proclamation of Emancipation

William Roberts
Print
1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

William Sartain
Print
c. 1865
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Edwin Forrest as Spartacus in

Edwin Forrest as Spartacus in "The Gladiator"

Mathew B. Brady
Photographic Negative
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Edwin Forrest Home for Retired Actors
Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner

McAllister & Brother
Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

August Belmont

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
mid 19th century
Owner: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

Gouverneur Kemble Warren

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of George S. Whiteley IV

Thomas Cole

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
c. 1845
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Portrait of President Abraham Lincoln and General McClellan at Antietam

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
1862
Owner: Dartmouth College

William Davis Ticknor

Nahum Ball Onthank
Painting
1864
Owner: Private collection

George Pope Morris

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
mid 19th century
Owner: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Mathew B. Brady

Mathew B. Brady

Francis D'Avignon
Print
1851
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
John Draper

John Draper

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
1856
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; conservation made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund

John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth
Drawing
1862
Owner: Private collection

John Caldwell Calhoun

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
1849
Owner: Private Collection
Choy-Chew, Chinese Merchant, San Francisco

Choy-Chew, Chinese Merchant, San Francisco

Unidentified Artist
Print
September 4, 1869
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of an anonymous donor
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Alan and Lois Fern Acquisition Fund

James Gordon Bennett

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
c. 1851
Owner: Library of Congress

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
Owner: New-York Historical Society
George Pope Morris

George Pope Morris

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
c. 1857
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Francis A. DiMauro

John James Audubon

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
1847-48
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum
Theodore Sedgwick

Theodore Sedgwick

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
after 1845
Owner: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

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