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President James Buchanan and his cabinet

President James Buchanan and his cabinet

Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery
McClees & Vannerson James Earle McClees Julian Vannerson
Title page to album --

Title page to album -- "Portraits (and autographs) of the President of the United States, Vice President, Cabinet and Eminent Senators and Representatives. Taken from Life, Washington, D.C. 1859."

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1859
National Portrait Gallery
Frontispiece to album

Frontispiece to album "Portraits (and autographs) of the President of the United States, Vice President, Cabinet and Eminent Senators and Representatives. Taken from Life, Washington, D.C. 1859"

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1859
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"Representatives" title page from album -- "Portraits (and autographs) of the President of the United States, Vice President, Cabinet and Eminent Senators and Representatives. Taken from Life, Washington, D.C. 1859."

Document
1859
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"Senators" title page from album -- "Portraits (and autographs) of the President of the United States, Vice President, Cabinet and Eminent Senators and Representatives. Taken from Life, Washington, D.C. 1859."

Document
1859
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The President of the United States Inducing the Hostile Tribes of the Pawnees and the Poncas to Shake Hands

The President of the United States Inducing the Hostile Tribes of the Pawnees and the Poncas to Shake Hands

Print
February 13, 1858
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
John Tyler

John Tyler

Painting
1859
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George Peter Alexander Healy
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

Painting
c. 1850, from an 1844 original
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George Caleb Bingham
Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore

Painting
December 2, 1857
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George Peter Alexander Healy
Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Painting
1853
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George Peter Alexander Healy
James Buchanan

James Buchanan

Painting
1859
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George Peter Alexander Healy
George Washington (Porthole type)

George Washington (Porthole type)

Painting
c. 1853
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Rembrandt Peale
Chester Alan Arthur

Chester Alan Arthur

Photograph
c. 1858
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Rufus P. Anson
Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren

Photograph
c. 1852
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew B. Brady
Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore

Photograph
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery
Southworth & Hawes

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    • United States. Army  81
    • Buchanan, James  26
    • Mathew Brady Studio  26
    • Pierce, Franklin  23
    • Brady, Mathew B.  20
    • Davis, Jefferson  20
    • Lincoln, Abraham  18
    • Fillmore, Millard  15
    • Currier, Nathaniel  11
    • Breckinridge, John Cabell  10
    • Everett, Edward  10
    • Healy, George Peter Alexander  9
    • Taylor, Zachary  9
    • Lee, Robert Edward  8
    • Louis Prang Lithography Company  8
    • McClees & Vannerson  8
    • McClees, James Earle  8
    • Stephens, Alexander Hamilton  8
    • Vannerson, Julian  8
    • Calhoun, John Caldwell  7
    • Currier & Ives Lithography Company  7
    • Grant, Ulysses Simpson  7
    • Jackson, Andrew  7
    • Washington, George  7
    • D'Avignon, Francis  6
    • Grant, Julia Boggs Dent  6
    • Lincoln, Mary Ann Todd  6
    • Meade Brothers Studio  6
    • Southworth & Hawes  6
    • United States. Navy  6
    • Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant  5
    • Johnson, Andrew  5
    • Stuart, Gilbert  5
    • Wilson, Henry  5
    • Adams, John Quincy  4
    • Brainard, Charles Henry W  4
    • Crehen, Charles G.  4
    • E. & H. T. Anthony & Company  4
    • Fremont, John Charles  4
    • Gardner, Alexander  4
    • Grozelier, Leopold  4
    • Peale, Rembrandt  4
    • Van Buren, Martin  4
    • Webster, Daniel  4
    • Whitehurst, Jesse H.  4
    • Benton, Thomas Hart  3
    • Cass, Lewis  3
    • Cobb, Howell  3
    • E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company  3
    • Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company  3
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    • 1800s  1
    • 1830s  3
    • 1840s  35
    • 1860s  118
    • 1870s  35
    • 1880s  32
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    • Maps  2
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    • National Portrait Gallery Collection  238
    • Currently not on view  216
    • NPG, East Gallery 134  11
    • Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery's Collection  11
    • America's Presidents (Reinstallation September 2017)  6
    • NPG, South Gallery 240  6
    • Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900  5
    • NPG, East Gallery 110a  2
    • NPG, East Gallery 132  2
    • NPG, East Gallery 123  1
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