Engineers Corps, 12th New York State Militia, Camp Anderson, Washington, D.C.

Mathew B. Brady

May–September 1861

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Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Dimensions

Image: 10 7/8 × 14 5/8 in. (27.7 × 37.2 cm) Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 5/8 in. (27.7 × 37.2 cm) Mount: 16 7/8 in. × 20 3/8 in. (42.8 × 51.8 cm) Frame (approx): 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019

Accession Number

2019.494

Tags

American Civil War

About the Artist

Mathew B. Brady · 18231896

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...

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