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...glass . . ." But production was upped from a few pictures to thousands a day, partly because of a group of go-getting photographers nicknamed "blue bosom boys." (As in TV, they could not properly photograph white shirt fronts.) Then photography passed two major milestones: ¶ U.S. picture journalism began with Mathew Brady, who passionately took up photography at 16. A weak-eyed, blue-spectacled portrait photographer, he decided in 1861 to cover the Civil War ("A spirit in my feet said go, and I went"). His quiet war pictures did not bring the spectator to the midst of battle, as recent...
...been discovered that the photograph isn't a picture of Hanover Junction Station, but Burke's Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which was published on page 93 in Roy Meredith's book Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man-Mathew B. Brady...
...your Oct. 20 issue, you state that the 89-year-old photograph showing a tall man with a stovepipe hat (supposedly Abraham Lincoln) will "start a historical argument." I doubt it ... You are correct in saying that the photograph was taken at Hanover Junction, Pa., by Mathew B. Brady, the famous Civil War photographer. However, the assumption that it shows Lincoln on the way to Gettysburg is nothing but a railway pressagent's wishful thinking...
...Author Lorant does not accept the Mathew Brady picture of the tall man in the stovepipe hat at Hanover Junction (TIME, Oct. 20) as a photograph of Lincoln (see LETTERS...
...unnoticed because it was labeled wrongly. Miss Josephine Cobb, photo chief of the National Archives, isn't sure that the whiskered man is Lincoln, but she has established that it was taken in late 1863 at Hanover Junction, Pa. (on the rail line to Gettysburg) by famed Photographer Mathew Brady...