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Mathew Brady First War Photographer and Pioneer
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln granted Mathew Brady permission to accompany Union armies and photograph the Civil War. Brady built a vast studio system in New York before choosing danger and privation to document battlefields and camps. His war images, including Gettysburg and Antietam, shaped history though he died in poverty in 1890.
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Elmo Scott
White House
Washington
Pew
South
Battlefeld
Abraham Lincoln
Mathew B. Brady
Bull Run
Lincoln
Brady
Warren County
New York
Lake George
Saratoga Springs
William Page
Nomed
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Morse
Etienne Daguerre
America
Page
New York City
United States
Institute
London
National Gallery
Brady Daguerres
Alexander Hamilton
Dolly Munrcison
Edgar Allen Poe
Daniel Webster
Henry Ies
John C. Calhoun
J. Fenimore Cooper
Washington Irving
Jenny Lind
Philip Barton Key
Fanny Elister
Pauline Cushman
Lewis
Jackson
van Buren
Polk
Broadway
Okabeth Farragut
Mississippi
Sherman
Georgia
Gettysburg
Felds
Pennsylvania
Antietam
William W. Belknap
St Cane
Benjamin Butler
Garfield
Butler
War Department
L. C. Handy
Handy
Maryland Avenue
L. C. Handy Studios
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Prince of Walesa