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Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis

Drawing
1929
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis

Drawing
c. 1930-33
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Herman Perlman
Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis

Drawing
1928
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
The Elephant Walks About

The Elephant Walks About

Print
October 28, 1876
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Thomas Nast
Walter Mondale

Walter Mondale

Photograph
1979
National Portrait Gallery
Ansel Adams
The Fifteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment

Print
1870
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Unidentified Artist
The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment and Celebration on May 19th A.D. 1870

The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment and Celebration on May 19th A.D. 1870

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1870
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Metcalf & Clark
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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1798-99
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Michel Sokolnicki
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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1905
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Anders Leonard Zorn
Henry Wilson

Henry Wilson

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1855
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Leopold Grozelier
Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death

Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death

Drawing
1988
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Edward Sorel
National Republican Chart

National Republican Chart

Print
1860
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Unidentified Artist
Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore

Print
1848
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Nathaniel Currier
Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Richard Milhous Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon

Photograph
1969
National Portrait Gallery
Philippe Halsman

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