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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Print
April 21, 1877
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist (Engraver)
Thomas Lewis Johnson

Thomas Lewis Johnson

Photograph
c. 1890
National Portrait Gallery
Debenham & Gould
John Henry Hill

John Henry Hill

Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Jesse James

Jesse James

Photograph
1882
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Jesse James

Jesse James

Print
April 1882
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
The Attorney

The Attorney

Print
1851
National Portrait Gallery
Max Rosenthal
John Alexander McClernand

John Alexander McClernand

Photograph
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden

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

James Garfield

Print
1880
National Portrait Gallery
Currier & Ives Lithography Company
John G. Nicolay

John G. Nicolay

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

James Gillespie Blaine

Print
1884
National Portrait Gallery
J. H. Bufford's Sons Lithography Co.
John Cotton Smith

John Cotton Smith

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

George Washington Cullum

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

Paul Wayland Bartlett

Painting
c. 1890
National Portrait Gallery
Charles Sprague Pearce
Samuel F. B. Morse

Samuel F. B. Morse

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

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