[Miniature Wedding Album of General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren]
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Medium
Albumen silver prints, brass
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/16 × 13/16 × 3/8 in. (2.7 × 2 × 1 cm) Images: 7/8 × 13/16 in. (2.3 × 2 cm), each
Classification
Albums|Jewelry
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 1999
Accession Number
1999.89
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Mathew B. Brady|General Tom Thumb|Lavinia Warren · 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...