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John A. Quitman

John A. Quitman

Photograph
c. 1861-1865 (after earlier photograph)
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Benjamin Watkins Leigh

Benjamin Watkins Leigh

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Alexander Dallas Bache

Alexander Dallas Bache

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew B. Brady
Frank Leslie's Portrait Pictorial

Frank Leslie's Portrait Pictorial

Print
c. 1862
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

Photograph
c. 1855
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
George Peabody

George Peabody

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
Cornelius Conway Felton

Cornelius Conway Felton

Photograph
c. 1856
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Adele Cutts Douglas

Adele Cutts Douglas

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
James Gillpatrick Blunt

James Gillpatrick Blunt

Photograph
c. 1863
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A. C. Nichols
John Brown

John Brown

Photograph
c. 1857 (after c. 1855 daguerreotype)
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Unidentified Artist
Edwin Denison Morgan

Edwin Denison Morgan

Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase

Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Charles DeForest Fredricks
Hannibal Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin

Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Charles DeForest Fredricks
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Cassius Marcellus Clay

Cassius Marcellus Clay

Photograph
c. 1861
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Charles DeForest Fredricks

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