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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
Patricia Mernone

Patricia Mernone

Drawing
1968
National Portrait Gallery
Norman Rockwell
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Photograph
1941 (printed 1983)
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Carl Van Vechten
Tom Hyer

Tom Hyer

Print
1849
National Portrait Gallery
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
National Portrait Gallery
George Wesley Bellows
Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk

Photograph
1999 (printed 2010)
National Portrait Gallery
Martin Schoeller
Mahlon Duckett

Mahlon Duckett

Photograph
December 7, 2007
National Portrait Gallery
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King

Photograph
1979
National Portrait Gallery
Lynn Gilbert
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

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