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Mathew Brady, photographer of an era

Title
Mathew Brady, photographer of an era [motion picture] / Lewis Jacobs.
Publication
New York : Texture Films, 1976.

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Additional Authors
Jacobs, Lewis.
Description
1 film reel (12 min.) : sd. b&w.; 16 mm.
Summary
Discusses Mathew Brady's contributions to photography as an instrument to record history. When the Civil War broke out, he left his studios and abandoned the daguerreotype for wet-plate photography. He trained the world's first combat camera crew.
Subject
  • Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
  • Art
  • Photographers > Biography
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
Credits (note)
  • Director, writer, and editor, Lewis Jacobs; music, Elly Stone.
Title
Mathew Brady, photographer of an era [motion picture] / Lewis Jacobs.
Imprint
New York : Texture Films, 1976.
Credits
Director, writer, and editor, Lewis Jacobs; music, Elly Stone.
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Jacobs, Lewis.
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M16 1987 M
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