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  2. Mathew Brady - Wikipedia

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    The thousands of photographs which Mathew Brady's photographers (such as Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan) took have become the most important visual documentation of the Civil War, and have helped historians and the public better understand the era. Brady photographed and made portraits of many senior Union officers in the war, including:

  3. Photographers of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    As a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady and worked for him continuously from 1856 to late 1862, when he was hired by Alexander Gardner as "superintendent of my map and field work." In the winter of 1861–62, O'Sullivan was dispatched to document Gen. Thomas W. Sherman's Port Royal, S.C. operations.

  4. Alexander Gardner (photographer) - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Gardner, 1860s. Abraham Lincoln became the President of the United States in the November 1860 election and along with his election came the threat of war. Gardner was well-positioned in Washington, D.C. to document the pre-war events, and his popularity rose as a portrait photographer, capturing the visages of soldiers leaving for war.

  5. A Harvest of Death - Wikipedia

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    As a teenager, he was recruited by Mathew Brady, a photographer and portraitist also known for his Civil War photographs. When the war began in 1861, he was most likely commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Union army. Alexander Gardner worked as a staff photographer for General George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac. O ...

  6. Brady-Handy collection - Wikipedia

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    The Brady-Handy collection is a historical photo archive of the United States. The collection is a cache of "mostly Civil War and post-Civil War portraits, with a small collection of Washington views" purchased by the Library of Congress in 1954, from descendants of Levin C. Handy , nephew and apprentice of photographer Mathew Brady . [ 1 ]

  7. William Pywell - Wikipedia

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    He first worked for Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner making a photographic record of the American Civil War, this work was published by Gardner in 1866 as "Photographic Sketch Book of the War" Vols. 1 & 2. (Washington, DC. Philp & Solomons).

  8. A now-indicted FBI informant was at the 'heart' of the GOP's ...

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    Alexander Smirnov, a 43-year-old FBI informant who began working with the bureau in 2010, faces two felony counts: one for making a false statement to a government agent and another for ...

  9. List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Mathew Brady Reproduced from a positive printed on film from a contemporary negative [106] National Archives Lincoln visited Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C., on at least three occasions in 1864. Several portraits survive from each session. January 8, 1864 [107] Overlay of three stereo images from a multiple image stereographic plate