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Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine

Photograph
1959 (printed February 13, 1981)
National Portrait Gallery
Bob Willoughby
The Army-McCarthy Hearings

The Army-McCarthy Hearings

Photograph
1954
National Portrait Gallery
Wide World Photos
George M. Leader

George M. Leader

Photograph
1954
National Portrait Gallery
Associated Press
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Positive Transparency
February 1954
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David Daniel Geary
Alexander Wetmore

Alexander Wetmore

Painting
1959
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Albert Ketcham Murray
Ralph J. Bunche

Ralph J. Bunche

Painting
1950
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Ernest Hamlin Baker
Un Americano a Parigi

Un Americano a Parigi

Print
1951
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Zincografia Firenze

Roy Rogers

Drawing
c. 1945
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Samuel Johnson Woolf
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

Photograph
1950
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Philippe Halsman
Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Photograph
c. 1962
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Philippe Halsman
Althea Gibson

Althea Gibson

Painting
1957
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Boris Chaliapin
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson

Drawing
c. 1954-59
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René Robert Bouché
Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Painting
1956
National Portrait Gallery
Peter Hurd
Sid Caesar

Sid Caesar

Photograph
1950
National Portrait Gallery
Philippe Halsman
Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Drawing
c. 1950
National Portrait Gallery
Anna Walinska

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