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The Fifteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment

Print
1870
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Frontispiece to

Frontispiece to "Memoir of Phillis Wheatley"

Book
c. 1834
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

Print
1773
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Dry-goods Merchant Searching the Cars

Dry-goods Merchant Searching the Cars

Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery
FOY
Death of Romulus Hall

Death of Romulus Hall

Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Breaking Him In

Breaking Him In

Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Clara Louise Kellogg

Clara Louise Kellogg

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c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

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1953
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Allen Ginsberg
Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham

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c. 1922
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Harris & Ewing Studio
Orestes Brownson

Orestes Brownson

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1863
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George Peter Alexander Healy
Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

Painting
1955
National Portrait Gallery
René Robert Bouché
Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Faith Ringgold and Willi Posey Jones

Faith Ringgold and Willi Posey Jones

Mixed Media
1998
National Portrait Gallery
Faith Ringgold
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Print
1793
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Savage

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