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Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Photograph
1948
National Portrait Gallery
Nat Fein
John E. Reardon, Gilbert Ray Hodges, Edward Raymond Fitzgerald, and Charles Bruce Edwards

John E. Reardon, Gilbert Ray Hodges, Edward Raymond Fitzgerald, and Charles Bruce Edwards

Photograph
1949
National Portrait Gallery
Arthur B. Rickerby

"Babe" Didrikson

Photograph
August 13, 1947
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Harry Warnecke Robert F. Cranston Gus Schoenbaechler
Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Photograph
1947
National Portrait Gallery
Nat Fein

"Babe" Didrikson

Photograph
August 13, 1947
National Portrait Gallery
Harry Warnecke Robert F. Cranston Gus Schoenbaechler
Ted Williams

Ted Williams

Photograph
1940
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Harry Warnecke
Gussie Moran

Gussie Moran

Photograph
1949
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Robert F. Cranston Bill Klein Harry Warnecke
Soichi Sakamoto holding stopwatch

Soichi Sakamoto holding stopwatch

Photograph
c. 1939
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Mitsuo "Pipi" Wakayama
Barbara Ann Scott

Barbara Ann Scott

Painting
1948
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Boris Chaliapin
Connie Mack

Connie Mack

Photograph
1948
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Philippe Halsman
William O'Dwyer

William O'Dwyer

Drawing
c. 1952
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Miguel Covarrubias
Husband E. Kimmel

Husband E. Kimmel

Painting
1941
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Ernest Hamlin Baker
Admiral Karl Doenitz

Admiral Karl Doenitz

Painting
1943
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Boris Artzybasheff
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

Painting
1942
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Betsy Graves Reyneau
Ruth Temple

Ruth Temple

Painting
1948
National Portrait Gallery
Betsy Graves Reyneau

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