Photographic History Collection: Mathew Brady and Brady Studio
date: label: Date made
content: 1851 - 1921
name: label: maker
content: Brady, Mathew B.
label: maker
content: Brady's National Portrait Gallery
label: maker
content: Brady's Photographic Studio
notes: 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.
topic: label: depicted
content: Civil War
label: depicted
content: U. S. Civil History
label: depicted
content: U.S. National Government, executive branch
label: referenced
content: Chronology: 1850-1859
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Military
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: COLL.PHOTOS.000005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mathew Brady and Brady Studio Collection