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Group gathered for the Treaty signing, Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory

Alexander Gardner
Photograph
1868
Owner: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

Unadilla Diner

Ralph Goings
Sculpture
1977
Owner: State Russian Museum

Strike

Robert Koehler
Painting
1886
Owner: Deutsches Historisches Museum
The Family Group

The Family Group

Thomas Sully
Painting
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

Head Studies

Louis Lozowick
Drawing
c. 1970
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Tables for Ladies

Edward Hopper
Painting
1930
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Academicians of the Royal Academy

John Zoffany
Painting
Owner: Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures

Dinner on Board the Yacht "Vanderbilt" at Cowes, Isle of Wight

Jacques-Emile Blanche
Painting
1913
Owner: Hon. Jacob Rothschild

Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown

John Trumbull
Painting
1787
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations

John Rogers
Sculpture
1866
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art
Sign Talkers

Sign Talkers

Winold Reiss
Painting
early 20th-mid 20th century
Owner: Whitney Western Art Museum

Family Group (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Thomas Seir Cummings
Drawing
1829
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ursa Major and Certain Particles of Cosmic Dust

Ralph Barton
Drawing
Owner: Museum of the City of New York, Theatre Collection

Scene in Pleasant Valley, MD.

Alexander Gardner
Photograph
October 1862
Owner: National Archives

The Indians Delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet near his Camp at the Folks of Muskingum in North America in November 1764

Benjamin West
Drawing
1765-66
Owner: Yale Center for British Art

Music

Susan Hannah Macdowell Eakins
Painting
c. 1875
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Dressing for the Carnival

Winslow Homer
Painting
1877
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose)

William Sidney Mount
Painting
1837
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ten Heads

George Benjamin Luks
Drawing
c. 1905
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Jeannette and Mother

Elizabeth Nourse
Painting
1923
Owner: University of Cincinnati

Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants

William Hogarth
Painting
c. 1750-55
Owner: Tate Gallery

Cheney Family

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1795
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Blind Musicians

John Singer Sargent
Painting
Owner: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Regional Museum

Family Party (recto)

Benjamin West
Drawing
1784
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

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