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Unidentified family

Clarissa Peters Russell
Painting
c. 1845-50
Owner: Joan R. Brownstein / American Folk Paintings

Study for "The Bailey Family"

Robert Walter Weir
Drawing
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Las Tres Razas o La Igualdad ante la Ley

Francisco Laso
Painting
1858
Owner: Museo de Arte de Lima

Liberty Displaying the Arts and Scienes

Samuel Jennings
Painting
1792
Owner: Library Company of Philadelphia

Bañista

Raquel Forner
Painting
1928
Owner: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Unidentified family

Unidentified family

Nel Laughon
Silhouette
n.d.a.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the family of Helen & Nel Laughon. The Laughon Collection care and digitization project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
Shaker Dancers

Shaker Dancers

Nel Laughon
Silhouette
1977
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the family of Helen & Nel Laughon. The Laughon Collection care and digitization project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
Shaker Dancers

Shaker Dancers

Nel Laughon
Silhouette
1977
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the family of Helen & Nel Laughon. The Laughon Collection care and digitization project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.

Unidentified Group

James Kivetoruk Moses
Painting
c. 1950
Owner: Anchorage Museum of History and Art

Vagabond Family (recto)

Benjamin West
Drawing
1788
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Indians bargaining

Ulysses Simpson Grant
Painting
1841
Owner: West Point Museum

York, Pennsylvania Family with Negro Servant

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1828
Owner: Saint Louis Art Museum

Portrait of a Family

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1783-93
Owner: Indianapolis Museum of Art

Children at Play

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
late 18th-mid 19th century
Owner: Winterthur Museum

Two Sisters of Old Hawaii

Madge Tennent
Painting
1933
Owner: State Foundation on Culture and the Arts

Datto Fecundo and the Moros

Jessie Tarbox Beals
Photograph
November 26, 1904
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Joanna Sturm
American Christian Union

American Christian Union

Thomas Doney
Print
1855
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

The Four Slater Children

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Saint Louis Art Museum

The Hunting Party--New Jersey

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1670-1730
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford

Charles Robert Leslie
Painting
1815
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Family Portrait

Ben Kamihira
Painting
1971-81
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Three Figures

Winslow Homer
Drawing
1868
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)

Winslow Homer
Painting
1870
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for La Mere

Elizabeth Nourse
Drawing
c. 1913
Owner: University of Cincinnati

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