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[Fort Totten defenses of Washington]
Creator
Mathew B. BradyAmerican Photographer · 1823–1896
All works by this person →> 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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1862
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0db9991c-5a4a-466e-b2c5-3cb2f9027faa
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A group of soldiers stands around a large cannon on a battlefield.
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