[Camp Scene with Soldiers of the 22nd New York State Militia, Harper's Ferry, Virginia]
1862
![[Camp Scene with Soldiers of the 22nd New York State Militia, Harper's Ferry, Virginia] by Mathew B. Brady](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/camp-scene-with-soldiers-of-the-22nd-new-york-301954.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 8.7 x 5.8 cm (3 7/16 x 2 5/16 in.) Mount: 10.2 x 6.1 cm (4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2013
Accession Number
2013.48
Tags
About the Artist
Mathew B. Brady · 1823–1896
Mathew B. Brady (c. 1823–1896) was an American photographer who became the most famous photographer of the Civil War era and one of the founding figures of American photographic history. Born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, he learned the daguerreotype process from Samuel F.B. Morse and William Page and opened his first portrait studio in New York City in 1844. Brady quick...