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Portrait of the Smith Family

Capt. James Smith
Painting
c. 1807
Owner: Colonial Williamsburg

Cree Indian Healing Ceremony

V. M. Bramley
Painting
Owner: British Museum, Department of Ethnography

Apache Mother and Children on

Carl Everton Moon
Painting
1937-43
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Flowers in Little Compton

Molly Luce
Painting
1941

Unidentified Family

William Williams
Painting
1760-90
Owner: Winterthur Museum

Hypnotism

John Adams Whipple
Photograph
c. 1845
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Escape with a Lady, as her Coachman, with Master’s Horse and Carriage

Escape with a Lady, as her Coachman, with Master’s Horse and Carriage

FOY
Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Family Group

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: Private Collection

Four Children

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1835-45

Moro boys diving for money

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

Conductor and Orchestra

Donald Carlisle Greason
Drawing
1963
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Two People in a Boat

John Singer Sargent
Painting
1902
Owner: City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham

Unidentified Group

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
Owner: Gilcrease Museum

New York Fire Department certificate presented to Peter Schenck in 1829

George Whitefield Hatch
Print
1829
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Family Group

Emil Foerster
Painting
1859

Double Portrait

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-30
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
View at White Bear Lake, Our Party

View at White Bear Lake, Our Party

John Carbutt
Photograph
c. 1870
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. West
Japanese Ambassadors

Japanese Ambassadors

M. N.
Print
1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Study for the Battle of La Hogue (recto)

Benjamin West
Drawing
1778
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Family Group of Four on Sofa

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830s
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unidentified Rabbis

Abraham Walkowitz
Drawing
1902
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Summer's Sunlight

Beatrice Whitney
Painting
c. 1934
Owner: National Museum of Women in the Arts

Master Amory with Little Amory and a Dog

John Carlin
Painting
1847
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Unidentified Family

Abraham Walkowitz
Painting
1900-10
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

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