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Eminent Women

Eminent Women

Print
1884
National Portrait Gallery
Eugene L'Africain
Heywood Broun

Heywood Broun

Drawing
c. 1925-30
National Portrait Gallery
William Auerbach-Levy
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Elwyn Brooks White

Photograph
1948
National Portrait Gallery
Irving Penn
Malcolm Cowley

Malcolm Cowley

Photograph
1959
National Portrait Gallery
Hans Namuth
Irving and his Literary Friends

Irving and his Literary Friends

Print
1864
National Portrait Gallery
Thomas Oldham Barlow
Heywood Broun

Heywood Broun

Drawing
c. 1925-30
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Henry Major
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Photograph
1955
National Portrait Gallery
Kay Bell Reynal
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Photograph
c. 1880
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James Notman
Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott

Drawing
c. 1930
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Reginald Bathurst Birch
Gunter Grass

Gunter Grass

Painting
1970
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Isadore Seltzer
Samuel Nathaniel Behrman

Samuel Nathaniel Behrman

Drawing
1929
National Portrait Gallery
Aline Fruhauf
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Photograph
c. 1895
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Herbert Rose Barraud
George William Curtis

George William Curtis

Photograph
c. 1863
National Portrait Gallery
Charles DeForest Fredricks
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith

Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith

Print
c. 1940
National Portrait Gallery
Edmond Xavier Kapp

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