. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . are rapid-ly disappearingand in order toinsure their pre-servation it isordered thathereafter neg-atives shall notbe loaned toprivate partiesfor exploitationor to subserveprivate interestin any man-ner. The geniusBrady, in pos-session of $25,-000, w h i c h,came from theGovernmenttoo late to savehis property, entirely lost track of his collection. Misfortune seemedto follow him and his Government money was soon ex-hausted. In speaking of him a few days ago, John , Past Vice Commander of the De
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . are rapid-ly disappearingand in order toinsure their pre-servation it isordered thathereafter neg-atives shall notbe loaned toprivate partiesfor exploitationor to subserveprivate interestin any man-ner. The geniusBrady, in pos-session of $25,-000, w h i c h,came from theGovernmenttoo late to savehis property, entirely lost track of his collection. Misfortune seemedto follow him and his Government money was soon ex-hausted. In speaking of him a few days ago, John , Past Vice Commander of the Department ofIllinois, Grand Army of the Republic, told me : I waswith the Army of the Potomac as telegraph operator. Iknew that views of battlefields were taken by men with a cumbersome outfit as compared with the modern fieldphotographer. I have often wondered what became oftheir product. I saw Mr. Brady in Washington, shortlybefore his death, and I made inquiry of him as to thewhereabouts of his war scenes. I asked him if the neg-atives were still in existence and where proofs could be. and of very slight physique. I should judge that he wasabout five feet, six inches tall. He generally wore abroad-brimmed hat similar to those worn by the artstudents in Paris. His hair was long and bushy. Thelast time I met him was about twenty-five years after theWar and he appeared to be a man of about sixty-five years of his fin-ancial reverseshe was still trueto his love forart. 1 told himthat I ownedseven thousandof his negativesand?he seemedto be became re-miniscent andamong thethings that hetold me I es-peciallymemberwords:one willknowwent BRADY ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF Gthe bloody wheat field—This picture shows ETTYSBURG IN JULY 1863—The smoke of the terrific conflict had hardly cleared away when Bradys What Is it wagon rolled ontoBrady looking toward McPhersona woods on the left of the Chambersburg Pike at the point near which the Battle of Gettysburg began pro
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