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Frederick Douglass

Print
1848
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Photograph
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio

Cinque

Print
1848
National Portrait Gallery
William Irwin
Harriet Tubman (frontispiece to

Harriet Tubman (frontispiece to "Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman")

Book
c. 1868
National Portrait Gallery
John G. Darby
A Dodge That Won't Work

A Dodge That Won't Work

Print
1872
National Portrait Gallery
John Cameron
Arthur Joseph Goldberg

Arthur Joseph Goldberg

Painting
1964
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Gardner Cox
Charles Hamilton Houston

Charles Hamilton Houston

Painting
1943-44
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Betsy Graves Reyneau
Felix Adler

Felix Adler

Photograph
1920
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Clara Sipprell
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Print
1905
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Anders Leonard Zorn
National Republican Chart

National Republican Chart

Print
1860
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Unidentified Artist
Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe

Painting
1993
National Portrait Gallery
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Print
c. 1865
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C. Bornemann
Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Drawing
1945
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
Angela Davis

Angela Davis

Photograph
1969
National Portrait Gallery
Stephen Shames
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Sculpture
1920
National Portrait Gallery
James Earle Fraser

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