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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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c. 1850 (after c. 1847 daguerreotype)
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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1876
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George Kendall Warren
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1856
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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1876
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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1870
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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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c. 1860
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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1876
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Richard Art Viguerie

Richard Art Viguerie

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c. 1984
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Michael Arthur Worden Evans
John Cotton Smith

John Cotton Smith

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c. 1860-70
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Mathew Brady Studio
George Washington Cullum

George Washington Cullum

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c. 1860-70
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John Irving

John Irving

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1981
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Shyla Irving
William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

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1953
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Allen Ginsberg
Thornton Niven Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder

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1962
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Arnold A. Newman
Norman Corwin

Norman Corwin

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March 1945
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Philippe Halsman
Sandy Campbell and Donald Windham

Sandy Campbell and Donald Windham

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1955
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Carl Van Vechten

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