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Selected Portraits From the Collections of the Library of Congress


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PARK, MAUD WOOD see image in online reference aid: "Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage"
Rosa Parks portrait
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PARKS, ROSA. Photograph by Associated Press. 1964.
Location: NYWTS - BIOG--Parks, Rosa--Segregation case
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-109426
Note: No copyright found; checked by staff December 2000. See also: image in online reference aid: "Images of 20th Century African American Activists"
Louis Pasteur portrait
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PASTEUR, LOUIS. Engraving. [No date found on item.]
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3497
George Patton portrait
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PATTON, GEORGE. As Lt. General. Photograph by U.S. Army Signal Corps. 1943 March 30.
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-25122
Alice Paul portrait
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PAUL, ALICE. Photograph. Copyrighted 1918.
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-37937
NOTE: see also image in online reference aid: "Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage"
Linus Pauling portrait
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PAULING, LINUS. Photograph. [No date found on item; ca. 1954.]
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-76925
Linus Pauling portrait
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PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN. Photograph. Copyrighted 1909.
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-8234; LC-USZC4-7507 (color film copy transparency)
William Penn portrait
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PENN, WILLIAM. "Engraved by J. Posselwhite from the print by J. Hall after the Picture by West. Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London. Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street." [No date found on item.]
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-12218
Francis Perkins portrait
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PERKINS, FRANCES. Photograph. Ca. 1932.
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-1132
John Pershing portrait
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PERSHING, JOHN. Photograph. [No date found on item.]
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-13554
Wendell Phillips portrait
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PHILLIPS, WENDELL. Photograph. [No date found on item.]
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-10319
Timothy Pickering portrait
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PICKERING, TIMOTHY. "Engraved by T. B Welch from a drawing by J.B. Longacre after G. Stuart." Smith after Stuart. [No date found on item.]
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-47649
Mary Pickford  portrait
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PICKFORD, MARY. Photograph by Arnold Genthe. 1921 Sept. 7.
Location: LC-G401-3664-048
Reproduction Number: LC-G401-T01-3664-048
PIERCE, FRANKLIN see image in online reference aid: "Presidents of the United States"
PIERCE, JANE MEANS see image in online reference aid: "First Ladies of the United States"
Gifford Pinchot portrait
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PINCHOT, GIFFORD. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood. 1921 Dec. 22.
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3906
Molly Pitcher portrait
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PITCHER, MOLLY [i.e., Molly McCaulay, loading cannon at Battle of Monmouth, 1778]. Engraving by J. C. Armytage after Chappel, copyrighted 1859, published in Robert Tomes, Battles of America by Sea and Land... (New York: Virtue & Co., 1861), vol. 2, opposite p. 120.
Location: LOT 4412-G
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-44892
Francisco Pizarro portrait
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PIZARRO, FRANCISCO. Engraving by Crispin van de Passe (1565?-1637). 1598.
Location: FP - XVI - P287, no. 821 (A size) (Reference print in Biographical File)
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-2947
Edgar Allan Poe portrait
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POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Photograph of daguerreotype by W. S. Hartshorn taken in 1848. Copyright by C. T. Tatman, 1904.
Location: Biographical File
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-10610
POLK, JAMES K. see image in online reference aid: "Presidents of the United States"
POLK, SARAH CHILDRESS see image in online reference aid: "First Ladies of the United States"
Ponce de Leon portrait
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PONCE DE LEON, JUAN. Wood engraving. [No date found on item.]
Location: From Denison, John Ledyard, ed. Die illustrirte neue welt (New-York, H. Bill, 1858) [E45.D43 General Collections]
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3106
POWELL, ADAM CLAYTON, JR. see image in online reference aid: "Images of 20th Century African American Activists: A Select List"
John Wesley Powell portrait
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POWELL, JOHN WESLEY. Photograph. [No date found on caption card.]
Location: Location unknown
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3862
John Wesley Powell portrait
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PRESLEY, ELVIS. Photograph. 1957.
Location: NYWTS -- BIOG -- Presley, Elvis--Singer
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ6-2067
Note: No copyright found; checked by staff December 2000.
Joseph Pulitzer portrait
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PULITZER, JOSEPH. Chromolithograph. [Ca. 1904.]
Location: LOT 10489
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-49254
Note: Gift, Ralph Pulitzer, 1966.

Prepared by: Samuel V. Daniel III, Barbara O. Natanson, and P&P staff. Last revised: May 2000
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