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...daguerreotypes, some stereopticon pictures from old Bowery peep prints," and shows, in old particular a theatrical few prints by "cabinet a man who could hold his head up with any Photosecessionist, whose prints were not only of considerable artistic merit but invaluable historic documents: Brady, the Civil War photographer. Mathew B. Brady (he did not know what the B. stood for) was born in upper New York in about 1823. As a young man he met Samuel Finley Breese Morse, an able painter best known as the in ventor of the telegraph. Through him Brady became interested in Louis Jacques...
...beginning of the Civil War Mathew Brady, rich and famed, with luxuriant whiskers and curly black locks, went to Abraham Lincoln and Allan Pinkerton, head of the U. S. Secret Service, and begged to be allowed to accompany the Union Army, record its deeds in action. The first news photographer gave up his comfortable studio, built a little black wagon for a traveling .dark room (nicknamed the "What-is-it?'' by inquisitive soldiers), and took the field in his own uniform, a floppy straw hat and a long linen duster...
...Morrow family has letters indicating that William Garberson, a great-grandfather, captured the geese on a millpond in 1814. A local atlas 50 years old contains a picture of wild geese owned by Mathew McKinstry, grandfather. The birds were handed down generation to generation. When Farmer Morrow got them six years ago there were five in the flock but one of them died in transit, another died in a barnyard accident and a third escaped...
...summaries: SPRINGFIELD HARVARD Seewagon, g. g., Von Briesen, Powel Randall, l.f.b. r.f.b., Catinella Parker, r.f.b. l.f.b., Wemple Warner, Hartman, l.h.b. r.h.b., Waters, Streeter Joyce, c.h.b. c.h.b., Frame Purdy, Peterson, r.h.b. l.h.b., Martin, Caturanni Dagastino, l.o.f. r.o.f., Schumacher Lewis, l.i.f. r.i.f., Dorman, Waters Roberts, c.f. c.f., Gummere Mathew, r.i.f. l.i.f., Broadbent Owens, Haight, r.o.f. l.o.f., White...
Score--Springfield 5, Harvard 1. Goals--Roberts 2, Owens, Dagostino, Mathew, Broadbent, Referee--Howarth. Linesman--Eaton, Shea. Time--Four 22-minute periods. HARVARD FRESHMEN EXETER England, g. g., Hecht Coleman, l.f.b. r.f.b., Joyce Irving, r.f.b. l.f.b., Harrison, Harding Kingsley, l.h.b. r.h.b., Wilson McGoodwin, c.h.b. c.h.b., Powel Fuess, Wemple, r.h.b. l.h.b., Picker Robbins, l.o.f. r.o.f., Parsons, Davison Grover, l.i.f. r.i.f., Larkin Stork, c.f. c.f., Perry Gaggin, Reed, r.i.f. l.i.f., Van Stone Clos, Vroom, r.o.f. l.o.f., Stone...