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Buffalo Bill

Stacy
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: New-York Historical Society
John Cabell Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge

Maurice W. Clark
Painting
c. 1880-90
Owner: Kentucky Historical Society

Harry King Burgwyn, John R. Lane, and Zebulon Vance

William George Randall
Painting
1897
Owner: North Carolina Museum of History
William Franklin Draper

William Franklin Draper

Maurice W. Clark
Painting
1890
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of William F. Draper, descendant
Hon. William F. Cody

Hon. William F. Cody "Buffalo Bill"

Katherine M. Cohen
Sculpture
1897
Owner: Whitney Western Art Museum

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Private collection

William T. Sherman

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Sculpture
c. 1892

Cody the Scout

Pappacena
Painting
1892
Owner: Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1791
Owner: Private Collection

Bust of George Washington

James Wilson Alexander Macdonald
Sculpture
1898
Owner: Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

William McKinley, Jr.

Freeman Thorp
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: U.S. House of Representatives

Major George Haven Putnam

Susan Watkins
Painting
c. 1900
Owner: Chrysler Museum of Art

George Washington (Lansdowne type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century

Head of George Washington

Virgil Theodore Nahl
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill

Sally Harfield Clark
Sculpture
late 19th-late 20th century
Owner: Whitney Western Art Museum

Alexander Hamilton

William Ordway Partridge
Sculpture
1892
Owner: National Park Service

Robert E. Lee

Edward Caledon Bruce
Painting
mid 19th-late 19th century
Owner: Private Collection
Bust of Col. W. F. Cody

Bust of Col. W. F. Cody

Anton Friedrich Scholl
Sculpture
1891
Owner: Whitney Western Art Museum
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

James Fagan
Print
1899
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

John Baytop Cary

Adele Williams
Painting
c. 1890-1936
Owner: College of William & Mary

George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton

John Faed
Painting
c. 1899
Owner: Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

John C. Breckinridge

John R. Johnston
Painting
before 1895
Owner: UNLOCATED

Theodore Roosevelt

Irving Sinclair
Painting
before 1969
Owner: Private Collection

George Washington

James Wilson Alexander Macdonald
Sculpture
1895

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