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Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. May 1865. David B. Woodbury [51] (1839–1879) was arguably the best of the artists who stayed with Brady through the war. [52] In March 1862, Mathew Brady sent Woodbury and Edward Whitney out to photograph the 1st Bull Run battlefield, and in May, views of the Peninsula Campaign.
Alexander was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, on October 17, 1821. He became an apprentice jeweler at the age of 14, lasting seven years. [2] Gardner was raised in the Church of Scotland and influenced by the work of Robert Owen, Welsh socialist and father of the cooperative movement. By adulthood he desired to create a cooperative community in ...
Juliet Handy. . . (m. 1850; died 1887) . Signature. Mathew B. Brady[1] (c. 1822–1824 – January 15, 1896) was an American photographer. Known as one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history, he is best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He studied under inventor Samuel Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype ...
A significant later effort to collect photos of the American Civil War in very similar vein of the 1911 release, was the National Historical Society's 2,768-page The Image of War, 1861–1865 in six volumes under the overall auspices of renowned Civil War historians William C. Davis and Bell I. Wiley as senior editors. [2]
A Harvest of Death, 1863. A Harvest of Death is the title of a photograph taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, sometime between July 4 and 7, 1863. It shows the bodies of soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, stretched out over part of the battlefield. It is the result of a singular photographic project by ...
John Wood (photographer) John Wood (1838-1901) was the U.S. government's first official photographer. He took the photograph of Lincoln's First Inauguration as well as the inauguration of James Buchanan in 1857, thought to be the first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration. [1][2][3] Wood made the 1857 exposure in four seconds. [4]
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan c. 1871 –1874. Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840 – January 14, 1882) was an American photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States.