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Philip Henry Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan

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1871
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Thomas Buchanan Read
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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1862
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Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Men of Progress

Men of Progress

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1862
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Christian Schussele
Samuel Washington Woodhouse

Samuel Washington Woodhouse

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1857
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Edward Bowers
Juliana Westray Wood

Juliana Westray Wood

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c. 1811
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Rembrandt Peale
Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast

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1887
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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1869
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Thomas Buchanan Read
John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell

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1889
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Edmund Clarence Messer
Edwin Forrest in the Role of Metamora

Edwin Forrest in the Role of Metamora

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c. 1832
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Frederick Styles Agate
Catlin the celebrated Indian traveller and artist, firing his Colt's Repeating Rifle before a tribe of Carib Indians in South America

Catlin the celebrated Indian traveller and artist, firing his Colt's Repeating Rifle before a tribe of Carib Indians in South America

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c. 1855-60
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John M. McGahey
Minimic

Minimic

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c. 1878
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James Wells Champney

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