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General B. Capturing Big Bethel

General B. Capturing Big Bethel

Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
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
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer

Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Now What? Carter's Cabinet Purge

Now What? Carter's Cabinet Purge

Painting
1979
National Portrait Gallery
Richard Hess
The Washington Family

The Washington Family

Print
1798
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Savage David Edwin
The Fifteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment

Print
1870
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Frontispiece to

Frontispiece to "Memoir of Phillis Wheatley"

Book
c. 1834
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Photograph
1864
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist

George Washington and Family

Print
1864
National Portrait Gallery
William Sartain
Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

Print
1773
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Death of Romulus Hall

Death of Romulus Hall

Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Breaking Him In

Breaking Him In

Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio

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