Sugar Loaf Mountain, Gettysburgh

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Pennsylvania, Gettysburg

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Creator / Contributor: Brady & Co. (Washington, D.C.)
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Title: Sugar Loaf Mountain, Gettysburgh
Collection Title: Civil War stereographs, 1861-1865.
Publisher: New-York Historical Society
Date: 1863
Series: Photographic history. The war for the Union. War views.
Description: Stereograph: Two men riding in a wagon, one possibly Mathew Brady, with Sugar Loaf Mountain beyond. Note in pencil on verso: ' Mathew Brady, left, in wagon'
Notes: Mathew B. Brady (1823?-15 Jan. 1896) American photographer best known for photographing the U.S. Civil War. He studied under Samuel F.B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Also known for photographing Abraham Lincoln for the first time in New York City before Lincoln's Cooper Union speech.
Institution: New-York Historical Society
Identifier: ad23015
2024
Subject: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896--Photographs
Photographers--Photographs
Wagons--Photographs
Gettysburg (Pa.)--Photographs
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs
Material type or medium of original: Stereograph
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