Cornell University has oil portraits of its founder, of James Russel Lowell, Goldwin Smith, and of Louis Agassiz; all by the painter Carpenter. Dr. William D. Wilson and John McGraw, (by Purdy,) Justin H. Morrill, (by Johnson,) and Peter Cooper (by a student at Cooper Union) are represented. There are portraits of Humboldt, Garret Smith, and Prudence Crandall, who organized a school for colored children in the early days of Abolitionism. Busts of Lincoln, by Vinnie Ream-Hoxie; of Prof. G. W. Greene, by Crawford; of President White, William C. Russell, and Dr. Wilson, form some of the historical pieces in the gallery of this young and flourishing college.
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