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Tom Hyer

Tom Hyer

Print
1849
National Portrait Gallery
Eliphalet M. Brown
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 Washington Family

The Washington Family

Print
1798
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Savage David Edwin
Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Myra Clark Gaines

Myra Clark Gaines

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Jennie Cleever

Jennie Cleever

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Print
c. 1860-65
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Alexander Hay Ritchie
Frederick W. Seward

Frederick W. Seward

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Jennie Cleever

Jennie Cleever

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
The Army-McCarthy Hearings

The Army-McCarthy Hearings

Photograph
1954
National Portrait Gallery
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Alexander Ramsey

Alexander Ramsey

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-64
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Mary Ann Meade

Mary Ann Meade

Photograph
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery
Meade Brothers Studio

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