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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Sculpture
1972
National Portrait Gallery
Charles Arthur Wells
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
c. 1850 (after c. 1847 daguerreotype)
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

Photograph
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery
Prentice H. Polk
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Painting
c. 1845
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1972
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Charles Arthur Wells
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1876
National Portrait Gallery
George Kendall Warren
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

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1864 (printed c. 1870)
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Randall Studio
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

Photograph
1938
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Prentice H. Polk
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

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1942
National Portrait Gallery
Betsy Graves Reyneau
The Fifteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment

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1870
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Unidentified Artist
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

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1945
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William Charles Kautz
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Photograph
1864
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
1856
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

Drawing
October 31, 1935
National Portrait Gallery
Mary Randolph Witmer
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
1876
National Portrait Gallery
George Kendall Warren

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