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Joe Coburn

Joe Coburn

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Photograph
1948
National Portrait Gallery
Irving Penn
Joe Coburn

Joe Coburn

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
General B. Capturing Big Bethel

General B. Capturing Big Bethel

Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Photograph
1941 (printed 1983)
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Carl Van Vechten
Tom Hyer

Tom Hyer

Print
1849
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Eliphalet M. Brown
Battle at Great Bethel

Battle at Great Bethel

Print
1868
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Introducing John L. Sullivan

Introducing John L. Sullivan

Print
1916
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George Wesley Bellows
Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk

Photograph
1999 (printed 2010)
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Martin Schoeller
Mahlon Duckett

Mahlon Duckett

Photograph
December 7, 2007
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Photograph
c. 1935
National Portrait Gallery
Underwood & Underwood
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Drawing
1944
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
John Joseph Sirica

John Joseph Sirica

Photograph
1974
National Portrait Gallery
George Tames
George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer

Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist

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