Kennedy's Collection includes not only pictures of places, but pictures of people as well. Many of these pieces do not depict a specific person, but rather seem to be an indication of Kennedy's interest in drawing the human body. Below is a list of pieces of Kennedy's collection depicting the human form.
| K : 8 - 15.1 | Pencil sketch; 11.2 x 18.1 cm | Sculpted figure. February 27, 1875. |
| K : 8 - 206 | Pencil sketch; 23 x 19.4 cm | Pensive Indian |
| K : 1 - 10.4a | Silhouettes of Thomas Say and Benjamin Say; Engraving of Thomas Say by Hoppner Meyer, from a painting by J. Wood. | |
| K : 7 - 18 | Pencil sketches; 15.4 x 15.1 cm | Studies of the human figure, 1873. |
| K : 7 - 36 | Pen and Ink; 14 x 21.7 cm | Studies of trees, human figures. 1869. |
| K : 8 - 151 | Pencil sketch (tracing); 9.9 x 17.1 cm | Group of Union soldiers surrounding a female figure. |
| K : 8 - 154 | Pencil sketch (tracing); 17 x 12.2 cm | Masked and heavily cloaked figure of a woman, 1865. |
| K : 10 - 25 | Watercolor; 15 x 11.6 cm | Three ladies by J. E. Kennedy. |
| K : 10 - 33 | Pencil sketch; 15.2 x 8.5 cm | Woman sitting in a church pew, May 19, 1861. |
| K : 11 - 24 | Watercolor; 15.6 x 10.9 cm | No title [an Indian sitting]. February 21, 1853. |
| K : 11 - 25 | Watercolor; 15.7 x 10.9 cm | No title [a girl on the beach, playing a banjo]. |
| K : 11 - 26 | Photograph of a silhouette; 7 x 5.2 cm | Ann Parrish. |
| K : 11 - 27 | Watercolor; 11.1 x 8 cm | A Bavarian Girl by Herman J. Schwarzman, architect. |
| K : VII - 22 | Pencil & ink sketches; 7.3 x 32 cm | Human figures sketched, 1877. |