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Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham

Photograph
c. 1922
National Portrait Gallery
Harris & Ewing Studio
Orestes Brownson

Orestes Brownson

Painting
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
Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Carl Schurz

Carl Schurz

Painting
1899
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Daniel Huntington
Reuben E. Fenton

Reuben E. Fenton

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Print
c. 1860
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E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company
Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
DeWitt C. Littlejohn

DeWitt C. Littlejohn

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Painting
c. 1905
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Samuel C. Pomeroy

Samuel C. Pomeroy

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Photograph
1891 (printed 1979)
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Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins

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