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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
c. 1850 (after c. 1847 daguerreotype)
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Josiah Johnson Hawes, Albert Francis Hawes and Charles Ebenezer Hawes

Josiah Johnson Hawes, Albert Francis Hawes and Charles Ebenezer Hawes

Photograph
c. 1845–1848
National Portrait Gallery
Southworth & Hawes Albert Sands Southworth Josiah Johnson Hawes
Possibly Jesse James with Mother and Sister

Possibly Jesse James with Mother and Sister

Photograph
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Alfred R. Waud

Alfred R. Waud

Photograph
c. 1853
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Jeremiah Gurney
Mary Ann Meade

Mary Ann Meade

Photograph
c. 1850
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Meade Brothers Studio
Charlotte Cushman

Charlotte Cushman

Photograph
c. 1850
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Unidentified Artist
Jenny Lind

Jenny Lind

Photograph
c. 1850
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Unidentified Artist
Henry Richard Meade with unknown young man

Henry Richard Meade with unknown young man

Photograph
c. 1848
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Unidentified Artist
John Howard Raymond

John Howard Raymond

Photograph
c. 1845
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Unidentified Artist
Dolley Madison and Anna Payne

Dolley Madison and Anna Payne

Photograph
c. 1848
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Mathew B. Brady
Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley

Photograph
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Photograph
date unknown
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James Wallace Black
Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis

Photograph
c. 1846
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Henry William Mathew Meade

Henry William Mathew Meade

Photograph
c. 1850
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Meade Brothers Studio Charles Richard Meade Henry William Mathew Meade
George Washington

George Washington

Photograph
c. 1845
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist

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