| Charles Richard Meade Daguerre [Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre] 1848 (original Daguerreotype) 1860s (ca) Cabinet card Private collection of Noel Chanan LL/33039 The book by James D. Horan "Mathew Brady, Historian with a Camera", (New York, Bonanza Books, 1955) it explains that Brady made copies of this photograph from an original daguerreotype by Charle R. Meade of New York City. It also provides the story behind how this image was taken.
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