[Unidentified bearded man standing, a top hat and coat on nearby table]

Creator

American Photographer · 1823–1896

> The correspondents of the rebel newspapers are sheer falsifiers, the correspondents of the Northern Journals are not to be depended upon . . . but Brady never misrepresents. > > Though known first as a portraitist, Mathew Brady became the most famous American photographer of the 1800s because of his studio's many Civil War images. Like other enterprising photographers in the mid-1850s, he opened