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Joe Coburn

Joe Coburn

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Tom Hyer

Tom Hyer

Print
1849
National Portrait Gallery
Eliphalet M. Brown
Introducing John L. Sullivan

Introducing John L. Sullivan

Print
1916
National Portrait Gallery
George Wesley Bellows
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer

Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
The Cooling of America

The Cooling of America

Drawing
1979
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Sorel
Laura Smith Haviland

Laura Smith Haviland

Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
The Washington Family

The Washington Family

Print
1798
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Savage David Edwin
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Photograph
1864 (printed c. 1870)
National Portrait Gallery
Randall Studio
Dry-goods Merchant Searching the Cars

Dry-goods Merchant Searching the Cars

Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery
FOY
Mrs. J. H. Louise Allen

Mrs. J. H. Louise Allen

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Margaret Julia Mitchell

Margaret Julia Mitchell

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Clara Louise Kellogg

Clara Louise Kellogg

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

Photograph
1862
National Portrait Gallery
Charles DeForest Fredricks
The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill

The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist

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