An autographed portrait of Bill Clinton hangs on the wall of his sleek 12th-floor trading office at the stock exchange.

He pointed to a picture behind him: an autographed portrait of Reagan, inscribed to Steele, on the same day the 40th president left office.

The framed, autographed portraits that other film celebrities had bestowed on the proprietor of the Desert Edge rattled on the walls.

He arrived ten minutes late, and was led past the bar, where autographed portraits of the restaurant's political clients covered virtually every square inch of wall space.

Kunze, now a police officer, received a promotion and Lieutenant Radtke got an autographed portrait of the now-deposed Crown Prince.

Next to a picture of her father and his band playing at Crosley Field during the 1940 World Series hangs an autographed portrait of the slugger Reggie Jackson.

Acutely aware of the photograph's celebrity-enhancing power, toward the end of his life he sold autographed portraits of himself for a living.

They consist of autographed portraits of actors, vaudeville performers, movie stills, singers, dancers, musicians, comedians and acrobats representing American theater history primarily from the 1890s and onward.

He left the studio and followed the wallplug lights past a dining-living room, with a framed White House menu collection and autographed portraits of six presidents, to the main stairs.

His prize possession as a boy was an autographed portrait of the martyred Claudia, ward of the stylish de Lioncourt, considered a paragon and an archetype among her kind.