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John Gibbs Gilbert and Lester Wallack

John Gibbs Gilbert and Lester Wallack

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Paul Strand

Paul Strand

Photograph
1935
National Portrait Gallery
Ralph Steiner
Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Ambrose Everett Burnside

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Edwin Forrest

Edwin Forrest

Photographic Negative
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew B. Brady
Ambrose Everett Burnside

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Mural Study #4:

Mural Study #4:

Drawing
c. 1941
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John Decker
Thomas Lipton

Thomas Lipton

Drawing
1924
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
James Murphy,

James Murphy, "The Irish Giant"

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Samuel Goldwyn, Rupert Hughes, Jesse Louis Lasky, and William Fox

Samuel Goldwyn, Rupert Hughes, Jesse Louis Lasky, and William Fox

Drawing
c. 1923
National Portrait Gallery
Walter K. Kinstler
Siege of Vicksburg

Siege of Vicksburg

Print
August 8, 1863
National Portrait Gallery
Frederick B. Schell
John Sefton

John Sefton

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
George Arliss in

George Arliss in "The House of Rothschild"

Drawing
1934
National Portrait Gallery
Joseph Grant
James Murphy,

James Murphy, "The Irish Giant"

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

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