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Joe Coburn

Joe Coburn

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Photograph
1948
National Portrait Gallery
Irving Penn
Joe Coburn

Joe Coburn

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
General B. Capturing Big Bethel

General B. Capturing Big Bethel

Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Patricia Mernone

Patricia Mernone

Drawing
1968
National Portrait Gallery
Norman Rockwell
Tom Hyer

Tom Hyer

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1849
National Portrait Gallery
Eliphalet M. Brown
Battle at Great Bethel

Battle at Great Bethel

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1868
National Portrait Gallery
Adalbert John Volck
Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk

Photograph
1999 (printed 2010)
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Martin Schoeller
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

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c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Photograph
c. 1935
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Underwood & Underwood
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Drawing
1944
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
John Joseph Sirica

John Joseph Sirica

Photograph
1974
National Portrait Gallery
George Tames
George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer

Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Photograph
1967 (printed 1989)
National Portrait Gallery
Benedict J. Fernandez
Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin

Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin

Photograph
1984
National Portrait Gallery
Harry Benson

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