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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
Institution: Getty Museum

Illustration of a group of men in a room. Several sit around a wood table on the left side of the image, as they look towards another man standing in front of them on the right side of the image. He holds both arms out to gesture with a sword slung across his back. A man standing next to him wears a large feather headdress and carries a spear and quiver of arrows on his back.

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