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George Washington

G. Rouse
Sculpture
c. 1900
Owner: New-York Historical Society

George Washington

Jane Stuart
Painting
19th century
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
George Washington (Athenaeum type reversed)

George Washington (Athenaeum type reversed)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
19th century
George Washington

George Washington

Wedgwood and Sons
Sculpture
19th century
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

George Miller Sternberg

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1893-1902
Owner: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
George Washington

George Washington

French & Potter
Sculpture
1900
Owner: Chesterwood
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
19th century
Owner: Brooklyn Historical Society

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Historic New England
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Bernard Dreyfuss
Sculpture
c. 1870-1900
Owner: New Haven Museum

William McKinley

Harry Thurston See
Painting
1901
Owner: New-York Historical Society
George Washington

George Washington

Henry Merwin Shrady
Sculpture
1904
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art
William Gordon McCabe

William Gordon McCabe

Ellis Meyer Silvette
Painting
c. 1900-20
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Leonidas Polk

Leonidas Polk

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
Painting
1900
Owner: University of the South
Theodore Roosevelt, John Milton Hay, Joseph Gurney Cannon

Theodore Roosevelt, John Milton Hay, Joseph Gurney Cannon

Charles Davis Mitchell
Drawing
c. 1905
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Marvin Sadik

John Shaw Billings

Edwin F. Faber
Painting
c. 1900-10
Owner: University of Pennsylvania

George Washington

Victor David Brenner
Medal
1890-1906
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George and Martha Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society
William McKinley

William McKinley

Robert Ingersoll Aitken
Sculpture
c. 1896-1904
Owner: City and County of San Francisco

William McKinley

Unidentified Artist
Medal
1907
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Lawrence Sullivan Ross

Elisabet Ney
Sculpture
1902
Owner: Elisabet Ney Museum
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1828-1900
Owner: Rutgers University

Kit Carson

Copeland Glass Company
Decorative Arts
1899-1909
Owner: Colorado State Capitol

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