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Why We (Republicans) Laugh

Why We (Republicans) Laugh

Print
c. 1880
National Portrait Gallery
Thomas Nast
William O'Dwyer

William O'Dwyer

Drawing
c. 1952
National Portrait Gallery
Miguel Covarrubias
Buchanan's Union Grand March

Buchanan's Union Grand March

Print
1856
National Portrait Gallery
J. H. Bufford Lithography Company
William Starke Rosecrans

William Starke Rosecrans

Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Louis Prang Lithography Company
Michael Joseph Mansfield

Michael Joseph Mansfield

Photograph
1961
National Portrait Gallery
Arnold A. Newman
John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles

Photograph
c. 1953
National Portrait Gallery
George Tames
Daniel Edgar Sickles

Daniel Edgar Sickles

Print
c. 1862
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Louis Prang Lithography Company
John A. Dix

John A. Dix

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
Irwin Laughlin

Irwin Laughlin

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1902
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Gertrude Käsebier
Walter Mondale

Walter Mondale

Photograph
1979
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Ansel Adams
Ronald Lindsay

Ronald Lindsay

Drawing
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
Ronald Lindsay

Ronald Lindsay

Drawing
c. 1930
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Samuel Johnson Woolf
Lewis Douglas

Lewis Douglas

Drawing
c. 1930
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Samuel Johnson Woolf
Maxim Litvinov

Maxim Litvinov

Painting
1942
National Portrait Gallery
Boris Artzybasheff
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Sculpture
1972
National Portrait Gallery
Charles Arthur Wells

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