Mathew Brady: Media
American photographer
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How documentary photographers brought home the realities of military life and death...
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Grand review of the Union army in Washington, D.C., May 1865, photograph by Mathew...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Mathew B. Brady.
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John Albion Andrew, photograph by Mathew Brady
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
George Bancroft, photograph by Mathew Brady
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Clara Barton, photograph by Mathew B. Brady, 1866.
National Archives, Washington, D.C. (111-B-1857)
James Gordon Bennet, daguerreotype by Mathew B. Brady.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Blaine, photograph by Mathew Brady
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Civil War general Ambrose E. Burnside, photograph by Mathew Brady.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-cwpb-05368)
John Calhoun, detail of a daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, c. 1849.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C (2017897495)
American politician Lewis Cass, engraving from a photograph by Mathew Brady, 1850.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abner Doubleday, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1865.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Thomas Edison demonstrates his tinfoil phonograph. Mathew Brady took this photograph...
Courtesy of the Edison National Historical Site, West Orange, N.J.
First lady Julia Grant, photograph on carte-de-visite mount by Mathew B....
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3c30774u)
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Cold Harbor, Virginia; photograph by Mathew Brady, 1864.
National Archives, Brady Collection, Civil War Photographs
Nathaniel Hawthorne, photograph by Mathew Brady.
The Granger Collection, New York
U.S. Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes, photograph by Mathew B. Brady, c. 1870–80.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-cwpbh-03606)
Union General Joseph Hooker and his horse. Fighting “Joe” Hooker, a veteran of the...
National Archives, Brady Collection, Civil War Photographs
Gen. Robert E. Lee seated on the porch of his home in Richmond, Virginia, with Maj....
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln in a photograph known as the Cooper Institute portrait, taken by...
The Photographic Album/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2021669449)
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Anthony Berger of the Mathew Brady Studio,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1864.
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-19211)
Samuel F. B. Morse with the telegraph he developed in the 1830s; photo by Mathew...
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-2188)
James K. Polk, daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, 1849.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3g06742)
Ruins of the Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va., photograph by Mathew B....
Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase
William H. Seward, photograph by Mathew Brady, early 1860s.
Courtesy of the U.S. Signal Corps
William H. Seward, photographby Mathew Brady.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman (center) and staff (from left): Generals Oliver...
National Archives, Brady Collection, Civil War Photographs
Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Joseph Story, photograph by...
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
American manufacturer Clement Studebaker, photograph by Matthew Brady, c. 1889–90;...
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert Drapkin, Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College (P1998.89.22)
Chief justice Roger B. Taney, photograph by Mathew Brady.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Pres. Zachary Taylor, reproduction of a daguerreotype by Mathew B. Brady, 1849.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-13012)
New York Gov. Samuel J. Tilden, photograph by Mathew Brady.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Company “A” 9th Indiana Infantry. Photograph by Mathew Brady.
National Archives, Brady Collection, Civil War Photographs
American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by Mathew Brady.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Charles Wilkes, photograph by Mathew B. Brady
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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