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Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Medal
1853
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Salathiel Ellis Joseph Willson (or Wilson) Salathiel Ellis Joseph Willson (or Wilson)
Michael Corcoran

Michael Corcoran

Print
c. 1862
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Louis Prang Lithography Company Louis Prang Lithography Company
James Henry Lane

James Henry Lane

Print
c. 1862
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Louis Prang Lithography Company Louis Prang Lithography Company
Charles Wilkes

Charles Wilkes

Print
c. 1862
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Louis Prang Lithography Company Louis Prang Lithography Company
Henry Warner Slocum

Henry Warner Slocum

Print
c. 1862
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Louis Prang Lithography Company Louis Prang Lithography Company
Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

Print
c. 1862
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Elmer Ellsworth

Elmer Ellsworth

Print
c. 1861
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Currier & Ives Lithography Company Currier & Ives Lithography Company
Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Print
1853
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Unidentified Artist Unidentified Artist
Officers of Our Union Army and Navy

Officers of Our Union Army and Navy

Book
c. 1862
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Louis Prang Lithography Company Louis Prang Lithography Company
Daniel Edgar Sickles

Daniel Edgar Sickles

Print
c. 1862
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Louis Prang Lithography Company Louis Prang Lithography Company
Charles Wilkes

Charles Wilkes

Photograph
c. 1861
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Charles DeForest Fredricks Charles DeForest Fredricks
Laura Smith Haviland

Laura Smith Haviland

Photograph
c. 1864
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Unidentified Artist Unidentified Artist
John Hunt Morgan

John Hunt Morgan

Photograph
c. 1862
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Unidentified Artist Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
c. 1850 (after c. 1847 daguerreotype)
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Unidentified Artist Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Painting
c. 1845
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Unidentified Artist Unidentified Artist

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