
Mathew B. Brady
American Photographer · 1823–1896
188 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
> 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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69th Reg. N.Y.V. Pioneer Party
Getty Museum · about 1862
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[Abraham Lincoln]
Getty Museum · before October 31, 1861
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Abraham Lincoln
Getty Museum · February 1860
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[Abraham] Lincoln [in profile]
Getty Museum · 1862–1864
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[Abraham Lincoln seated, in profile]
Getty Museum · about 1862
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[Abraham Lincoln standing with one arm behind his back]
Getty Museum · about 1864
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![Admiral [David Glasgow] Farragut](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Ff2d19510-3a37-4ad7-acf5-20343370f1a9%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
Admiral [David Glasgow] Farragut
Getty Museum · about 1865
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Aiken House
Getty Museum · 1864
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All the live stock left on Mr. Gill's plantation after the Battle of Gettysburgh.
Getty Museum · 1863
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[American Civil War compilation album: mostly group portraits of generals and their staffs plus some camp scenes]
Getty Museum · 1864
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A Picturesque View of Belle Plain Landing, James River.
Getty Museum · about 1862
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Army wagon going to commissary depot, City Point, for supplies
Getty Museum · 1864–1865
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Baldy Smith and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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Bejamin Hoid(?)
Getty Museum · 1861–1865
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Belle Plain [illeg.] Landing
Getty Museum · 1864
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Bermuda Hundred
Getty Museum · 1864
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Birney and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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[Brevet Major-]Gen. [John Henry] Martindale (1815 - 1881)
Getty Museum · about 1862
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[Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry and Staff]
Getty Museum · 1864
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Broadway Landing. Appomattox River
Getty Museum · 1864
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Building a Block House on Company Street, at Ft. Brady, Va.
Getty Museum · about 1862
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Burial of dead at Fredericksburgh, Va.
Getty Museum · about 1861–1865
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Burnside and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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Butler and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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[Cages Where Enslaved People Were Held]
Getty Museum · 1862
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[Camp Scene with Soldiers of the 22nd New York State Militia, Harper's Ferry, Virginia]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1862
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Captain Coopers [sic] Battery - 1 Pennsylvania B. [sic] in front of P.
Getty Museum · 1864
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Captain Coopers [sic] Battery - 1 Pennsylvania B. [sic] in front of P.
Getty Museum · 1864
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Captain [illeg.] Battery
Getty Museum · 1864
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Cemetery Gate, Gettysburgh.
Getty Museum · about 1862
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City Point
Getty Museum · 1864
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[Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1856–58
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Cornwallis' Cave. Converted into a Magazine by the Confederates.
Getty Museum · 1862
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Crawford and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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Dade Monument.
Getty Museum · 1862–1864
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Dana, Assistant Secretary of War; taken at Gen. Grant's Head Quarters, Va.
Getty Museum · about 1862
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Departure of the Mayflower
Getty Museum · 1859
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[Double turreted monitor "Onondaga", James River, Virginia]
Getty Museum · 1864
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Dutch Gap Canal
Getty Museum · 1864
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Edward Everett
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1858
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[Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D.]
Getty Museum · 1862–1865
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![[Engraving of Abraham Lincoln after a photograph by Mathew B. Brady]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2F5a1afc20-7606-401c-acb3-73be2d8c7ae2%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Engraving of Abraham Lincoln after a photograph by Mathew B. Brady]
Getty Museum · about 1865
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[Execution scene]
Getty Museum · 1864
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Flirtation Walk.
Getty Museum · 1862–1864
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Flirtation Walk.
Getty Museum · 1862–1864
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Flirtation Walk.
Getty Museum · 1862–1864
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Fort Brady 1st Connecticut Artillery. Building Winter Quarters
Getty Museum · 1864
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Fort Sumner, on the Chickahominy River, Va. This view shows the cannoneers at the guns awaiting the attack...June 28, 1862.
Getty Museum · June 28, 1862
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[Fort Totten defenses of Washington]
Getty Museum · about 1862
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[Ft. Runyon Settlers]
Getty Museum · about 1862
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G.B. Fosters Naval Brigade. Captain [illeg.] C.M. 13 [illeg.]
Getty Museum · 1864
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General Ames and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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General Foster and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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[General George Thomas]
Getty Museum · about 1865
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General Grant
Getty Museum · 1864
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General J. E. Smith and Indians
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1870s
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General Ledlie and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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General Neil [sic] and Staff
Getty Museum · 1864
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General Robert E. Lee
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1865
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[General Sherman & Staff Before Atlanta July 19, 1864]
Getty Museum · July 19, 1864
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