Telegraph Station, Wilcox's Landing
Artist
Mathew B. Brady
(American, 1823 - 1896)
Dateca. 1864
MediumAlbumen stereograph
DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 3 1/8 × 6 5/16 inches (7.94 × 16.03 cm)
Mount: 3 5/16 × 7 1/16 inches (8.41 × 17.94 cm)
Mount: 3 5/16 × 7 1/16 inches (8.41 × 17.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.235
SignedOn mount verso, lower right, green label, in black type: "Negative by BRADY & Co., Washington."
InscribedOn mount recto, left edge, in black type: "PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY";
On mount recto, right edge, in black type: "THE WAR FOR THE UNION.";
On mount verso, center, green label, in black type: "WAR VIEWS. / Telegraph Station, Wilcox's Landing. / No. 2351 / PUBLISHED BY E. & H.T. ANTHONY & CO. / AMERICAN AND FOREIGN STEREOSCOPIC EMPORIUM, 501 BROADWAY NEW YORK."
MarkingsOn mount verso, top, green labels, in pencil: "5"
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Developing Greatness: The Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – December 30, 2007, no. C-111.
Keith F. Davis, The Origins of American Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Distributed by Yale University Press. Published in conjunction with Developing Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885, shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 333, 334 (repro.).
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Mathew B. Brady
1863
2005.27.236
