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Robert Moses

Robert Moses

Drawing
1934
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
Edward Lee Thorndike

Edward Lee Thorndike

Drawing
1931
National Portrait Gallery
Samuel Johnson Woolf
Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday

Photograph
c. 1931
National Portrait Gallery
S. B. McQuown
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Photograph
c. 1935
National Portrait Gallery
Underwood & Underwood
Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter

Sculpture
20th century
National Portrait Gallery
Eleanor Platt
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

Photograph
1935
National Portrait Gallery
Sonya Noskowiak
James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell

Painting
c. 1934
National Portrait Gallery
Frederick S. Wight
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Print
1933
National Portrait Gallery
H. McD. Rundle
John Barrymore

John Barrymore

Photograph
1931
National Portrait Gallery
Clarence Sinclair Bull
Edward Jean Steichen

Edward Jean Steichen

Photograph
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery
Henry J. McKeon
Ted Shawn

Ted Shawn

Photograph
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery
Edwin F. Townsend
Henry Walters

Henry Walters

Sculpture
1930
National Portrait Gallery
Hans Schuler
Clark Gable

Clark Gable

Photograph
c. 1931
National Portrait Gallery
Clarence Sinclair Bull
Thomas J. Mooney

Thomas J. Mooney

Print
1933
National Portrait Gallery
George Biddle
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

Painting
1931
National Portrait Gallery
Ellen Gertrude Emmet Rand

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