. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . Daniel S. Lamont, Sec-retary of War in President ClevelandsCabinet, was much interested. Brigadier-General A. W. Greeley, in supervisorycharge of the Government collection,said : This collection cost the UnitedStates originally the sum of $27,840, andit is a matter of general regret that theseinvaluable reproductions of scenes and faces connectedwith the late civil conflict should remain inaccessible tothe general public. The features of most of the per-manent actors connected with the War for the Unio
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . Daniel S. Lamont, Sec-retary of War in President ClevelandsCabinet, was much interested. Brigadier-General A. W. Greeley, in supervisorycharge of the Government collection,said : This collection cost the UnitedStates originally the sum of $27,840, andit is a matter of general regret that theseinvaluable reproductions of scenes and faces connectedwith the late civil conflict should remain inaccessible tothe general public. The features of most of the per-manent actors connected with the War for the Unionhave been preserved in these negatives, where also areportrayed certain physical aspects of the War that are of interest and of historic value . . graphic rep-resentations of the greatest of American, if not of all, Government, however, has stated positively thattheir negatives must not be exploited for commercial pur-poses. They are the historic treasures of the wholepeople and the Government has justly refused to establisha dangerous system of special privilege by granting. SECRET SERVICE GUIDE DIRECTING BRADY TO SCENE OF ACTION-Pointing towardthe edge of Ihewoods where General Reynolds was killed at Gettysburg in July, 1863—Brady carried his cameras ontothis field permission for publication to individuals. As the prop-erty of the people the Government negatives are held insacred trust. Mr. Edward B. Eaton, the first president of theConnecticut Magazine, one of the leading historicalpublications in this country, became interested in the his- torical significance of the Brady collection and conferredwith the War Department at Washington about the Bradynegatives. He found that the only possible way to bringthe scenes before the public was through the private collec-tion which not only includes practically all of the sixthousand Government negatives but is supplemented bya thousand negatives not in the Government Johann Olsen of Hartford, whowas one of
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