The Wedding Procession

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The Wedding Procession

Creator

Mathew B. Brady

American Photographer · 1823–1896

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> 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

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Date
1859
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Illustration of a woman wearing a flower crown sitting sideways on the back of a bull. A man in a suit of armor stands on the left and holds her outsetretched hand, as another man stands on the right and wraps his arm around her waist. He holds a rope in his other hand which is attached to a ring in the bull's nose. A crowd follows behind the bull.

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