Mathew Brady Works Online
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Original works by Mathew Brady available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Mathew Brady at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Lewis Cass, ca.1857
Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York
Stereo views
Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York
Negatives
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Officers, 71st Regiment, New York Infantry, 1861
Mathew Brady at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
2 works by Mathew Brady online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 
6 works online when last checked
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Brady-Handy Collection of thousands of Civil War Photographs
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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John James Audubon
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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John James Audubon
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Mathew Brady at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Mathew Brady at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Portrait of Martin Van Buren
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Portrait of James Duncan, ca.1848
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
1 photograph online: Untitled, ca.1863 (row 6/image 3). Click on the little "i" on the detail images to bring up information about the works.
Mathew Brady at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
General Robert E. Lee and Staff, 1865
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
5.000 Meisterwerke der Fotografie (in German) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The History Project at U.C. Davis
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Photo Seminars Online
Photography @ Temple University Online
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works 
See the "Photography Encyclopedia" entry, which is actually from The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005)
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Mathew Brady
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
PhotoQuotes
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1865
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Mathew Brady
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Brady's Civil War
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