Brady-Handy collection

The Brady-Handy collection is a cache of "mostly Civil War and post-Civil War portraits, with a small collection of Washington views" purchased by the Library of Congress in 1954, from descendants of Levin C. Handy, nephew and apprentice of photographer Mathew Brady.[1] The collection included 10,000 original, duplicate, and copy negatives including about 4,000 original wet collidion plates and 1,300 glass plate negatives.[2] The collection also included 24 daguerreotypes.[2]

The credited photographers are chiefly—but by no means entirely—Brady, Brady studio, and Handy.[2] Other photographers represented included Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Alexander Gardner, Cruikshank, and various photographers of Confederate generals.[2]

There is also a Brady studio register dated 1870 to 1876 that includes notes such as "refunded—Baby would not sit still" and "Capitol Policeman, to be charged half price."[2]

There were some restrictions on use of the collection in place until 1964.[2] According to the Library of Congress, all of the images in the Brady-Handy collection have now entered the public domain.[3]

References
  1. "Brady-Handy Collection - About this Collection". loc.gov. 1860. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  2. Milhollen, Hirst D. (1956). "The Brady-Handy Collection". Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions. 13 (3): 135–142. ISSN 0090-0095.
  3. "Brady-Handy Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-28.


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