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Claude Marchant

Claude Marchant

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
c. 1945
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Private collection
Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton

Alexander W. Dreyfoos
Photograph
c. 1916
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

William Harold Payne

Lemuel Maynard Wiles
Painting
c. 1870-1900
Owner: University of Michigan
Ralph Izard

Ralph Izard

John Trumbull
Painting
1793?
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Charles Loring Elliott
Painting
c. 1852
Owner: Boston Public Library
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm

Richard Avedon
Photograph
July 12, 1976
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; this acquisition was made possible by generous contributions from Jeane W. Austin and the James Smithson Society

William Clyde Fitch

Max Beerbohm
Drawing
c. 1909
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Pauline Cushman

Pauline Cushman

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1865
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

Jane Hosmer

E. Reynolds
Painting
1932
Owner: Jae Carmichael

The Copley Family

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1776-77
Owner: National Gallery of Art
Self-Portrait (No. 19)

Self-Portrait (No. 19)

Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
Drawing
August 23, 1983
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago
Varina Howell Davis

Varina Howell Davis

Emile Louis Herzinger
Painting
1866
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

James David Smillie

Henry Augustus Loop
Painting
1866
Owner: National Academy of Design

Jeremiah Demming

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860-75
Owner: The Mariners' Museum
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Leonard Wells Volk
Sculpture
c. 1860
Owner: Chicago History Museum
When It's Buzz, Buzzin' Time in Bee, Bee, Bee Town

When It's Buzz, Buzzin' Time in Bee, Bee, Bee Town

Henri Mannel
Print
1913
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Saul Zalesch

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-57
Owner: Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia

Morris Ketchum Jesup

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
indeterminable
Owner: American Museum of Natural History

John Shaw Billings

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

But What Would Adam Say?

Clifford Kennedy Berryman
Drawing
1942
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Bt.

John Singer Sargent
Painting
1901
Owner: Mrs. Walter Elliott
Wesley Clair Mitchell

Wesley Clair Mitchell

Winifred Smith Rieber
Painting
1935
Owner: Columbia University, Art Properties

Jessie Benton Frémont

Thomas Buchanan Read
Painting
1856
Owner: Southwest Museum

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