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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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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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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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c. 1893
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Sallie E. Garrity
Grandma Moses

Grandma Moses

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c. 1950
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Alexander Bender
Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

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1961 (printed later)
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Rollie McKenna
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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Mathew Brady Studio
John Irving

John Irving

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1981
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Shyla Irving
Abiquiu (23 of 48)

Abiquiu (23 of 48)

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1966 (printed later)
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John Loengard
William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

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1953
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