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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Photograph
1880
National Portrait Gallery
Edy Brothers
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Photograph
1891 (printed 1979)
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Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
Claude McKay

Claude McKay

Photograph
1941 (printed 1983)
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Carl Van Vechten
Edward Penfield Self-Portrait

Edward Penfield Self-Portrait

Print
1898
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Penfield
Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann

Painting
c. 1954
National Portrait Gallery
Stanley Meltzoff
Diana Walker and Ronald Reagan

Diana Walker and Ronald Reagan

Photograph
1986 (printed 2010)
National Portrait Gallery
William Fitz-Patrick
Samuel F. B. Morse

Samuel F. B. Morse

Photograph
1871
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Abraham Bogardus
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Photograph
1872
National Portrait Gallery
G. Frank E. Pearsall
Meg Mundy

Meg Mundy

Photograph
June 2, 1948
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Carl Van Vechten
Elbert Hubbard, James Pond and Frances Benjamin Johnston

Elbert Hubbard, James Pond and Frances Benjamin Johnston

Photograph
1900
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Frances Benjamin Johnston
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

Drawing
1935
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James Fitzgerald
George William Curtis

George William Curtis

Photograph
c. 1863
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Charles DeForest Fredricks
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Photograph
1883
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Caresse Crosby

Caresse Crosby

Photograph
c. 1950
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Volkmar K. Wentzel
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Photograph
c. 1870
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Napoleon Sarony

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