Unidentified Man
date: label: date made
content: 1861-1865
label: date made
content: 1860s
name: label: maker
content: Brady, Mathew B.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Albumen carte-de-visite made by Mathew Brady. Portrait of an unidentified mustached man dressed in a suit, seated, with book on lap. On verso side, an orange design outlines the printed label. The label reads: "Brady & co's--Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, No 352 Pennsylvania Av. Washington, DC & Broadway & Tenth st. New York."
label: Description
content: The Mathew Brady Collection is comprised of approximately 366 items dating from 1851 to 1921 in various formats including cartes-de-visite, cabinet photographs, imperial prints, silver gelatin prints, ambrotypes, albumen prints, stereoscopic photographs, wet collodion glass negatives, albums, models, newspaper clippings and paper. The materials are arranged according to format, and within format by maker. The wet collodion glass negatives are also arranged according to size. The majority of the items consist of military and civilian portraits taken by Mathew Brady himself or by one of the photographers from Brady's studio. Subjects for the collection include the American Civil War, U.S. Presidents, U.S. Heads of State, U.S. military personnel, notable personalities and general portraiture.
label: Description
content: Highlights of the collection include portraits of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant, General Robert E. Lee, General George Armstrong Custer, Southern Confederacy President Jefferson Davis, President Andrew Johnson, General William T. Sherman, Samuel F. B. Morse, Mathew Brady, Henry Ward Beecher and Edgar Allan Poe. Also of note is a double-sided ambrotype taken by Mathew Brady.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Battle of Antietam, 1862
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Seville Collection
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of M.W Seville
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.003955I
label: catalog number
content: 3955I
label: accession number
content: 117896
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Name
content: carte-de-visite
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 6 cm; 3 15/16 in x 2 3/8 in