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Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso

Drawing
1920
Alfred J. Frueh
My Guys

My Guys

Painting
1975
Jack Davis
Ella Fitzgerald (with Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, and Milt Jackson)

Ella Fitzgerald (with Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, and Milt Jackson)

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1947 (printed later)
William Paul Gottlieb
Charles Lindbergh and Alexis Carrel

Charles Lindbergh and Alexis Carrel

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1938
Samuel Johnson Woolf
Greta Garbo in

Greta Garbo in "Queen Christina"

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1933
Joseph Grant
Campaign '86

Campaign '86

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1986
Edward Sorel
Granville Sharpe Pattison

Granville Sharpe Pattison

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c. 1826
Richard James Lane
Zum Brauhaus

Zum Brauhaus

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1933
George Biddle
Alla Nazimova

Alla Nazimova

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1910
Edward Emerson Simmons
André Eglevsky

André Eglevsky

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c. 1945
Carl Van Vechten
Charles Becker

Charles Becker

Photograph
c. 1896
Unidentified Artist
Guevara, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung

Guevara, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung

Painting
1960
Bernard Safran
John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Drawing
c. 1830
James Barton Longacre
Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley

Photograph
1885 (printed c. 1889)
John Thompson
Kenan Evren

Kenan Evren

Painting
1980
Mark Hess

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