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Alexander Dallas Bache

Alexander Dallas Bache

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew B. Brady
Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase

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

Abraham Lincoln

Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Meade Brothers Studio
Clarence Day and Eveline Shepard Day

Clarence Day and Eveline Shepard Day

Painting
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Annie Harriet Haden

Annie Harriet Haden

Print
1858
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Jenny Lind

Jenny Lind

Print
c. 1857
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John Sartain
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Print
c. 1860
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John L. Magee
Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

Print
1853
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John C. McRae
Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix

Photograph
1879 (after c. 1853-1857 daguerreotype)
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Unidentified Artist
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Photograph
c. 1862
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Charles DeForest Fredricks
John Brown

John Brown

Print
c. 1859
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Currier & Ives Lithography Company
George Peabody

George Peabody

Print
c. 1852
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Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company
George Lippard

George Lippard

Photograph
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Jenny Lind

Jenny Lind

Photograph
1851
National Portrait Gallery
Thomas Faris
P.T. Barnum

P.T. Barnum

Photograph
c. 1860
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Mathew Brady Studio

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