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Mathew Brady (circa 1875)

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18MB TIFF file, cropped, adjusted, scaled, and converted to JPEG
Photographer
Mathew Brady (1823?–1896)
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Collection, reproduction number LC-DIG-cwpbh-03798.
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"Published photographs in this collection were created before 1923 and are therefore in the public domain. Unpublished photographs in this collection are also in the public domain as Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932."

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