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William Pate & Co. of New York published this portrait of Lincoln in 1869. The engraver, Henry Gugler, is best known for his bank-note work. Although the copyright notice below the print indicates the ...
Mathew Brady, known as the father of photojournalism for his documentation of the Civil War, also won acclaim for nuanced portraits of famous figures.
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 ...
JEFFREY BROWN: He was, first, Brady of Broadway, Mathew Brady, one of the best-known portrait photographers of his day, a shaper of images of the likes of Abraham Lincoln and then of a searing ...
Portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ulysses S. Grant, and Emma, Queen of Hawai‘i are featured, ... Mary Todd Lincoln, Attribution: Mathew Brady Studio, Modern albumen ...
In addition to newspaper and magazine reporters, photographer Mathew Brady also looked forward to Abraham Lincoln’s campaign trip to New York City on February 27, 1860.
On Easter Sunday 1865, the renowned Civil War photographer Mathew B. Brady set up his camera on the basement-level back porch of a house at 707 Franklin St. in Richmond. It was tense in the former ...
MATHEW BRADY: Portraits of a Nation, by Robert Wilson. Bloomsbury, 273 pp. $28. ... President Abraham Lincoln had died the day before at the hands of an assassin.