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Related Object Info Mathew Brady’s Great Americans: Prints from the Original Glass Negatives in the Meserve Collection, produced in association with Time-Life Books Inc., 1976. 11 toned gelatin silver prints made from Mathew Brady's Civil War-era glass negatives and published in 1976 by Time-Life Books as a collection of ten portraits of significant historical figures. The subjects include President Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel B. Morse, and others. All but one of the prints are small portraits mounted on the front covers of folded, heavyweight paper, above printed copies of the subjects' signatures and an embossed seal confirming the edition - 1271/2500 - and the use of original Brady collodion-glass negatives. The first photograph in the portfolio is a full-page print of Lincoln's portrait, taken by Brady's assistant Anthony Berger. Each of the smaller portraits is followed by a text about the subject, and the entire series is prefaced with a lengthier text about Brady by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. The portfolio, a clamshell box designed to look like a book with gold-lined edges, gold-printed text, and an ornately patterned covering, is in good condition with a few signs of damages at the corners and along the binding.
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Mathew B. Brady
ca. 1865
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Mathew B. Brady
ca. 1862
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Mathew B. Brady
1864
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Mathew B. Brady
1866
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Mathew B. Brady
ca. 1865
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Mathew B. Brady
ca. 1865
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Mathew B. Brady
1864
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Mathew B. Brady
1866
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Mathew B. Brady
ca. 1862
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Anthony Berger
February 9, 1864
Photograph
Anthony Berger
February 9, 1864
