Seeing the Civil War

by Brady studios (DC & NY)

Wikipedia says: In 1844, Brady opened his own photography studio at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street in New York, and by 1845, he began to exhibit his portraits of famous Americans, including the likes of Senator Daniel Webster and poet Edgar Allan Poe… In 1849, [Brady] opened a studio at 625 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., where he met Juliet (whom everybody called ‘Julia’) Handy, whom he married in 1850 and lived with on Staten Island.

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