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Brady's daguerreotypes capture a generation of luminaries
Special correspondent Frans G. Carpenter recounts M. Brady, a pioneer photographer in Washington, who photographed Jenny Lind, Sontag, Patti, Adelaide Neilson, Calhoun, Webster, Lincoln, Grant, and Lee. The piece highlights Brady’s prominence, anecdotes with figures like Dickens and Poe, and his role in shaping public images of presidents, statesmen, actors, and writers over fifty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Th Sontag
Patti Stories of
Clay
Abe Lincoln
Adelaide Neilson
Calhoun and
Webster
Walmington
Jenny Lind
America
Brady
Brad
London
Washington
Willard’s
Louis Napoleon
New York
Fulton
Nassau
Jenny Lind Company
Frank Leslie
Illustrated
Mr. Brady
Catherine Hays
Sontag
Patti
Andrew Jackson
Mr. Calhoun
Lamartine
Ola
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
Lincoln
Jackson
Hermitage
Grant
Pennsylvania Avenue
Stanton
Gen. Grant
Senator Benton
Benton
John the Baptist
Daniel Webster
Rose
Broadway
Charles Dickens
Dickens
United States
Horace Greeley
Delmonico’s
Edgar A. Poe
Fenimore Cooper
Cooper
N.P. Willis
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert E. Lee
Appomattox
Gen. Lee
Frans G. Carpenter