In February 1860, photographer Mathew Brady got the assignment of a lifetime. Abraham Lincoln was in New York to deliver a speech and stopped by Brady’s studio for a portrait. The future president ...
Photographer Mathew Brady (c. 1823 –1896) may be best remembered today for his role in producing a remarkable visual record of the Civil War (1861–65). Yet he initially gained fame as a portrait ...
Mathew Brady: Prince of American photographers. The early years -- The illustrious Americans project -- The gallery of Illustrious Americans -- The great triumvirate of the senate -- Mathew Brady and ...
I n 1860, Mathew Brady was one of the world's best-known photographers. His book, "The Gallery of Illustrious Americans," published 10 years earlier, had made him famous. Those who had sat in his ...
The National Portrait Gallery traces early images of American leaders, from John Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, William Judkins Thomson, half-plate ambrotype, 1858 Alice George - ...
In light of the Tulsa City Council vote to rename Brady Street after photographer Mathew Brady, I thought I would post some of Brady's photographs from the Library of Congress collections. Brady was a ...
In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to ...
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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer. By Robert Sullivan. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 464 pages; $32 THE TREES are cloaked in mist. In ...