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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Kurz & Allison Lithography Company
Print
1898
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Kiplinger Family
The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt

The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt

Alfred Henry Maurer
Painting
1894
Owner: Whitney Western Art Museum

Study for Albert Spalding

Violet Oakley
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Woodmere Art Museum

Ulysses S. Grant

John Wood Dodge
Painting
1891
Owner: Bortman-Larus Collection

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
before 1894
Owner: Columbia University, Art Properties
Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Frances Mcneil Potter
Painting
1892
Owner: Dartmouth College
John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders

John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders

Samuel Hoffman
Painting
1864-99
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Edward Edgar Wood

Frank Fowler
Painting
c. 1890-1905
Owner: U.S. Military Academy
Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor

Jacques Reich
Drawing
c. 1899-1920
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Thomas Jonathan Jackson

Thomas Jonathan Jackson

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
c. 1880-90
Owner: Valentine Museum
Waller Tazewell Patton

Waller Tazewell Patton

Mary R. Gilmer
Painting
c. 1901
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
General Leonard Wood and Colonel Joseph Dorst

General Leonard Wood and Colonel Joseph Dorst

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1889
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Richard Mentor Johnson

James Paxton Voorhees
Sculpture
1895
Owner: U.S. Senate

Thomas McCarthy

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1860
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Col. Wallace Bruce Colbert

Henry W. Moody
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: Colbert Drane

Nicholas Herkimer

Rufus Grider
Painting
1890?
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Jubal Anderson Early

Jubal Anderson Early

John P. Walker
Painting
1898
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

Johannes Sophus Gelert
Sculpture
c. 1888
Owner: Chicago History Museum

James William Denver

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

Henry Clark Corbin

Adolfo Müller-Ury
Painting
c. 1904
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Mrs. Henry Clark Corbin, 1941

Isaac Stoutenburgh

Dewitt Clinton Peters
Painting
c. 1890-1929
Owner: Rutgers University

Portrait of J.E.B. Stuart

John Adams Elder
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Commonwealth Club

Henry Larcom Abbot

Robert Gordon Hardie
Painting
1892
Owner: Catherine Abbot Owner: Marquess of Londonderry
Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Unidentified Artist
Decorative Arts
c. 1885
Owner: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens

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