Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1921, Page 57

3 e s N4 5 ] A . THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 17, 1921<PART 4. Big Collection of Famous Brady Photographs Owned by a Washington Man VER Ten Thousand of the Original Negatives Taken by Well Known Pho- tographer of Many Years Ago Are Included in Unusual CollecEion—Pictures of Persons in the Limelight a Half Century and Longer Ago—When the Prince of Wales, Later King' Edward, Posed for Brady — Exhibition in Europe — Brady's l Studio in Washington—Famous War Photographs. : ( ¢ these old negatives have been in BRADY. th tographer.” |9 [{3 A e Pt | dexed. There is nothing mysterious | FENEHES 3 i . own by ‘as MY | about this collection, but not one per- | K& b AP 2 ; . people in Washington as |son in 10,000 in Washington knows i A . : THE BRADY PHOTOGRAPH OF JENNIE any President, senator, tn-tnlt exis! "d'h'orr:u"lh“x'n" edms i . e preserved. ma : - ‘;:e"‘ i ;""l'l""dd‘:l"“‘ "";’ ""'"; note of eur story. S S R - ’ ; Hm the greatest creq/t—fnding the ‘ufir-; Fravhic publishing concern in Hamtford. Conn odd years he lived here, and more| When one. speaks of the Brady col- ! , . sion of her spicit af & man—that these | s for twenty venra been steadily engaged in = e . . di; had lifted tie < smoothed | maki d selling i T Ay’ ie- men knew Brady well than knew |lection of photographlc negatives one % ; s . o ‘ ¢ B | e et e e ea. how " grandmoth. | tures.” The salc 1s Jacgely smoug velersns in p v " - e elite of the beauts of their time. and | all parts of the Untied States. thinks that collection of civil war well any man in official life. Old| GOt eonsiating of battlefield Mr. Brady as time settled upon him—he was ers, Z set’ heads up and down like another Warw tory of the rulers of parties, sects, agilutions and (seventy-six when Le died—became men remember him as 2a small|goenes, battlefleld landmarks, ups Al PO = wiry, nervous, genial and likeable |of living soldiers and piles of dead Z \ - . the stage. PR business methods and hile middle-aged men remem- |men, which was purchased from Mr. | BRADY PHOTOGRAFH OF THE FRINCE OF WALSS (LATER; KING EDWARD VIT) MADE IN NEW YORK IN 1860. THE PRINCE IS STANDING IN | _As traly as Aodubon, Wagner or Chbrice splendid MR % Brady by the War Department un CENTER, HOLDING HAT AND CANE, BETWEEN TWO OF THE SEATED MEN. M CL N R SR e L act of Congre: From the Brady-Handy collecion. fifty years of his career. ‘photogra) with long and abundant gray hair, 8| which appropriated $25,000 for the - ired”The Thiccesstul, 'the Interesting mei | ' street. In this collection were e o e life-size negatives of the famous gemerals, a gra; flowing mustache of gray, sray - - ! rignol n_to the texmen, Journaliets, @ipiansts, Sieeary mes B » “goatee”—and still wiry, genlal and world, and - ~ % o U and actresses of the cemtur. ' lits historia , value is incalculabie and must a ber him as & man slight in stature, lguthority of an 1keabl Many remember him as Brimidi, artls fied when. in 1840, oo his own side of the z e % — ing -necufile- with heavy blue|, s ;. nan and cabinet, Gen. John Bu- | Stk Fof, Tseet vioreel Bie ot P | b & i peren and manzer Mr. Brady was & most as his gight began to fall, and 5 : ekt . : d |ford (Unlon), Gen N. B. Bufort f his 2 ; congenial gentleman. His friends were logion | e hobbled and A % (Union), Gen. Abraham Buford, Ken- o 4 { » and hexnhmd for yeary to give them his . tucky, C. 8. A.: Ole Bull, violiniat: | B nd s 1 time and company rather fhan coufine himeelf n old man a ‘ 4ok 5 Frederick Burnaby, explorer; Gen. Mar< ining showed him the chance for & t . G 10 the demands of Lis calling. He 8id a great ubles 4ud tin Burke and staff, Col. J. O. P.|career which this new invention opened, and it S { ; 7 Geal of transitory and fugltive work in recent boon dead Bix ontha % e B irworth, Byhum, | we& bt short time before he had gailery - ] |years. much of which conslsted of taking plo- t et 3 on Broadwas and 11 Iaunched ¥ : | i ? a; hty.five years, and he " d.; Brownell, the man who shi oy A was well Iaunched Soomitte i A ; | |tures of laree groups of orgunisstions visiticg IhARC Lwenty old when he ed El itn to all comers. He w il s S BB ) > seventy-six years : ; ehail | House, A ata. S s nepbew, L. C. Hands, owns & large ), ber of Mr. Brady's negatives and suc- , 4 | Barron, Confederate ¥ b a i .:: .un.; g E > Bochanan. Confedorate. Navy. DRadabe e AVornader ceeds to the !mm part of his bosiness. emroom. sat’ for your portrait in : oo | . TuTning at -3ndom to the list under | L8 peY none Ll Dt b In the Dew Tork Trlbume of n- ridegroom. sat for your DOl ers | : % L." The Star man jotted down these | Eiy % DeFative furnishing many uary 17, 1896, I8 a letter to the editor { | tamitiar names and subjects: Lincoln ; the twenty sears herors nia start 'a headed ' “Tribute to M. B.. Brady’s é at Antletam, Libby Prison, Jennle ! civil war he became the fashionable photog Memory” and signed “Samuel P. Lind, Belva Lockwood, Gen. Long-|rapher of his day. Avery.” 1In this letter one gathers & 5 5 Abraham Lln-l few bits of information sbout Mr. coln (many negativi :)‘ Robert r.ln-I * % %% I\sndyyn-;‘d why it was thAK‘M‘th in coln, Hugh L. Legaré, Dan Lamont, P 7 New York city at the time dea came . RADY'S life as told by him to to him. The letter follows: M. B. Brady, who died in the Presbyterian ; . iweather Lewis, but he W here long. : 2 : | , Merriwoathar Lowis George Alfred Townsend and as aps It n:;:‘b;ri’;f :'“ ‘the most ? ; s e riet Lane, Lincoln funeral and | reported by Mr. Townsend s some- Hospital on Wednesday night, was long knowa o write y - Mrs. Lincoln, wife of the President. |what different from that outlined in Sl T o i g o hat is, the most widely known—photographer who ever .l;v!-hd‘- I the above sketch. There is no men- IR A o S York) and to whom many of the leading cit- izens of the country sat for their portraits. On the breaking out of the rebellion he establisheq At one time—that is, in the ¥ HERE are a great many negativgs [ tion of A. T. Stewart. . But let us daguerreotype, and In the early stages| [ ] . s : % himsel? in Washington and soon put % €orps of jeea—| B hi and his assistants made | bave it as “Gath” set it down in 1891, operators upon the various fields of action, of photography as now Sract which Brady s assl P ntiouing their services natil the ciose of (he Durin these years he gathered over Brady was famous for the art-excel- o A by copylng old ofl portraits of distin- | thirty years ago: *‘How old are you, Mr. Brady? 30,000 pegatives representing many felds of ) Jence of his work. As the chemical and guished men and women and old daguer- X battle; showing the earthworks, the desd, the mechanical sides of photograshgwere 1 . % b 2 developed thoussnds. é :{ |reotypes made by other daguerreotypers. “Mr. Brady—Never ask that of a| [ 3 i % " wounded, the captured prisone: ifs of the business who had mot psssedf f - Then there are stacks of books labeled | 184¥ or ‘a_'photographer. they are 4 4 Tamous ccers and thousands of acbyped and 1n- theough the & 4 | sensitive. I will tell you, for fear - : ® cidents necurring during that evestful epoch rte” pha en you might find it out, that I go back 3 In making this collection Mr. Brady expended B ate men iy g ed {to the year 1823-4, that my birthplace | FZ the fortune he had accumulated 1o his former than Brady was_ Warren county, N. Y. in the , A successful business, Laving faith that Comgress ture woods about Lake George, and that - B i 22 would sppreciate the historical value and b L. 3 eventually purchase it whsn youns. and some df them 28 cover & period of many years. There|my father was 3 3 an_Irishman. ."..':”:‘;5:3“;‘5:.' Bugz‘mm w are ‘wide columna for the name and| “Mr. Townsend—Not just the zenith o any Tof them made: Bet address of the sitter, filled in by the|place to drop into art frgm? tures than Brady, He ad all the| E i patron of the Brady gallery. And| “Mr. Brady—Al But fthere was new ways as they came alodg, and there are narrow columns for these |Saratoga. where I met WRliam Page, sometimes helped them to comp slong things: “Index, Number of Negative, |the artist, who painted Page's ‘Venus.' % bout m & ‘adopted them first. 7 Number, Style. Done When, Dellvered | He took an interest in me and gave 4 Ay ) : RELETIg ol RO "!::‘a‘.,i‘,"g....'f;‘; < Fi When, Paid, Unpeid.” Generally a|me a bundie of his crayons to copy. b PN |, Since then be bas besn tas «4 His material was liberally used by srtists, publishers and bistorian 11 ticipation of ite purchase, failing in bealth and business, growing old and nearly blind, totally citated for work by belng run.over by & carriage, without means, without ives, be bl o i g - big book was filled out | This was in Albany. Nok, Page be- o - X UT Brady's prestige wis becauss i Batly Dy “subjects= and turning the |came a pupil of Prof. Morse in New & Ko 4 D o otar sa ot o) st soheral ke B foneer in the #rt, and pages carelessly Tho Star man | York cit who was then painting 3 v . A tlemen connected with or interested in our Mu- B was. 8 o Seilaes, glahiced down one headed “Washing-{ portraits at starvation prices in the ; s 3 ceum of Art who subscribed various sums for because in his New York stulies, "‘; ton. D. C.. March 10, 1873 Here un(ver-mrl rooker{. on “';lt;lng;:n . p 2 g the purchase of & fine portrelt of Mr. Brady ‘Washington, -th mos follow the entries on that page:! square. was introduce 0 Mr. . ¢ p Wy 2 paln! y Chales L. . wl now oa fare oumini Lo e dice IoF . &one. 51 Newspaper ow; F. | Morse; he had just come home trom 3 WA A exhibition at the museam. His body was for- famous persons in EOVREREREL SO A Moors, Philadelphia Public Ledger, | Paris and had invented upon the ship S i B 0 % Y ! . e sercun WL be e, Tooned by vt in letters, music and the drama, in and Eroup—E, F. Beck, T. C. Proctor, | his telegraphic alphabet, of which ; A T ' 7 : B finance, businens and, soclety sought BRADY, THE PHOTOGRAPHER. - Rohgre Gretien. Duvall Porter’and | hls mind was so fall thic ho couid ; ; 5 e e S A T him to have their portri e H..C. errett; John utchinson, ! give u e atte on 0. re- mbered b A of our old 1dent; pictures were exhibited s & Bumber This pictuts waspiohably, made)inithe s N per. anq Hutohinson family, Miss|markable discovery ome Daguerre,| HOME OF THE BRADY-HANDY 0 Brost talented and entansiastic aetiat, &ad 85 & Fagnie, Miss Kate, Henry and Jud-|a friend of his,_ had made in France. : 494 MARYLAN E. Todest, gentle, generous man. of E\Impe-nrcluen. tnal s luu 5 Photographer” was nearly Y | purpose. That collection was only a |1868; M. A. Handy, 1913, and Matthew |89n: Waggaman children, O. . Snyder, known among what for: goi a the store of negatives which | Brady, 1896. i P Charies Moore, Charles Hays, M.C.; Wm. ws tha are called “the higher cliages™ B O e T o aers iveme duy | man Jotted Thesemantos’ and. dates | B. Jones, J. M. Pllon of the Spanish e lend e was. Daguerre had | las, now ‘Mrs. General ‘Williams, Mrs. | and women coming and golng, and because he | LCLEET, KTOWS (hat the writer of It had don, Paris and Rome llhfl{,"fll"“‘ ing the years from 1842 to about 1894 |carved in stone: George M. Kendall, | Iegation: C. Fransuela. Spanish legation: traveled In this country, exhibiting |Kate Chase Sprague. Mrs. Bass, sub-|had a higher passion than money, we posstss| progy, < . o e i 80, that visiting notables | \n& the years from 1812 to about 184 | Ay e, I s 18- 3975 aned signty |G. M. Ory Spanish legation. and Austin | dissolving views. and Morse had) cequently Mme: Bertinattis Mra B D | TRt of the soul thereof awhich otherwise would from abroad dropped into Brady'simh tnot, "0 tne collection of Brady |Seven years. Elizabeth Bright Kendall, | Smith, M.C.. Richmond, Ve known him. While Morse was abroad | Bishop of Connecticut, Mrs. Joha R-|jiv’been imbecile in descriptions or fictitious ‘ Siudlos in New York and Washington. | The Bart of, the Collectioq of BIACY | wite of George M. Kendall, who died | cabinet size, send National Hotel. §5.00" | Daguerre and fiepce had, after many | Thompson of New Jersey and MIS. | by the perversion of some portrait painter. Plant Self-P: e o 2o with the Prince of Wales, | ICEatives which we have I mind | o8, Ges6: awad sighty-nine years. |and this note written over the lne in | experiments. fixed the pleture 11| John J. Crittenden, Lady Napler, Lady | or thy same betson, beriaas, Bracy i 1ot lan =Protection. Jater to be crowned King Edward VIL {308 N veeon ™ "Ohich "he lived, and |Mary Ann Fullmore, who dled Septem- M. Brady's hand: “Photos refused. sensitive chemicals, but they applled [ Eimer and the- earlier Lady Gore |rich. He allowed the glory of the civil war) oo vo who, with his suite, visited the United | ("S2% v Cr ™ a0y That house s No. | ber 22, 1875, aged ninety years. The| The birthplace of Mr. Brady was a|it chiefly or only copying scenes. | Qusely \and her very handsome sis- | fo take away ;&- -'nllnE- lnd‘tn\'flt'u'menn NG long-leaf plants protect States in 1860. The prince, traveling| o, "yorviand avenue southwes Rev. William Ryland, chaplain in the |matter of dispute or a Miatter of mis- a partrait painter. thought | ter, Mrs. Judge Roosevelt of New e Shieet Ia American themselves against forest fires in as Baron Renfrow, and his party | 82 JARF B0 BYONCE (0 are owned |Unifed States Navy. “He was a native understanding. 1In some of the news- omethiog to reduce the la- | Yoik: Mrs. Van Buren, Miss Van | i Virginia, T a most interesting and remarkable visited the Brady studio in New York. |t 8y S0in®corbin Handy, & nephew of |Of Ireland and entered the traveling | paper clippings which lie before The Star bor_of porteatts | He 8d 2 Joft | Buren, " Mi Hamilton ~ Fish, Mrs. | ian For 2 Brady was already the fashionable (3% “Gr.G “Ca"one of his assistants |ministry of the Methodist Episcopal [man and which wers in possession of Mr. In his brother's struc ure, at Nassau | August Belmont, Mrs. Dr. Carnachon, | for ihls readhn. perhaps way. For four Or five years the stems photographer, but the patronage of | M. Brady; S0 FUS 0o ® (0% oging [ Church in 1302 He ended his labors |Brady at the time of his rests, With a tele- | Mry. President Tyler, Mrs. Gen. Free- | ogw orer (e, Pennaviania railroad ticket | of the infant trees attain & height of the prince seemed to make it neces- | JOW 8 LY (0 Meng'® oW T |and (word illegible) at the Navy Yard, |written that he was bol and an embryo cam. | mont, Mrs. W. B. Astor, Mme. de Tro- | S0 023" 1eicor the swhole. Pauncefote £M7 | only as many inches above the soil. sary that everybody who was any. {3 Cner who specializes in pho. | Washington city, D; C. January 18, that he was born in Cork, Ireland, that | Si2, also at work. He ordered one of | pignt, Mrs. James Brown, Lady Bury. | fy'*“00 "ttt ‘Cupnatic ‘stistaction-miniater, | During this time their bark body, or everybody who consldered P ORLE T g nuscript, prints and | 1846, in the seventy-geventh year of his | he was born in New Hampshire and that. Daguerre's cameras for a M7, Woll:| the daughter of Sir Allen McN#b and | wife and daughters—as be took the =, IS Eeit ik 08 e~ ;h:’[ h‘o' ;or ‘l'h.(:‘ ::;l!:ng:ocfloy“.'?dr‘x;r:; medals. ;u:' s:el;ed ;o t:henmemgv% ‘:ltn l&n. he was born_in Igw‘York state. Ac- :’:?:nc?" P-rl;' l:‘ or:n ‘W. Draper and | ¥\ I:f the Govenor General of ‘su 5 traordinarily thick.: and that alone o e old one oanna, wife of the Rev. y - ing to Mr. Brady, as gquoted by 3 . s da; Mrs. R. L. Stewart, Mrs. W. ives some protection. = anybody, must §o down to Brady's for | (The Handy family |s an old ome iD |iand, chaplain, United States Navy, who g e ey e Saottd b7 | Frof - Doremus - coungeled me—-both | (i derpite and Mrs. Jonn Bigelow.” & me p But in addi a sitting. Bt gettle here was Samuel |departed this iife January 12, 1840, aged | tive of New York. In 1911 the Review eminent chemists. It was Draper | Vifcre are some of the mames of pro- | \[ATTHEW BRADY was an oft-met tion the long needles spring up above L Georgs Alfred Townsend published | i jady,. who came from Snow Hill |3bout seventy five yeara. In memory of | of Reviews Company published as a T dnvented Ao emtered at last fessional people whom Mr. Brady re man on the streets of Washington, | the stem, and then bend over on Md. Whben he came the writer of 2 3 3 T “‘gemi-centennial memorial” “The Photo- AN ey, In 18423 My | celv photographed in his studio: |11 the lobbies of the Willard, NationalSides in a green cascade which fall York World, April 12, 1!%. ‘:x-:d the 1786; died December, 1847. She was a hic History of the Civil War in Ten x-mo the business, say, Y | Pattl, when she was seventeen; Belle a T i e o s ol & The Star man, reading Mr. Avery's visit of the Prince of was | these lines doss not know. but B piece of the Rev. Willlam Ryland and A. Oto was at the corner of Broad-|Fattl when B el the sreat |and - Metropolitan and sometimes the touched on In this way: name 18 10 the B A o *ifandys |for nearly half a century was an inmate e motooraphel 't Thousands , of| way and Fulton streets, where T re banso. ‘and died” young. Ristorl, “with | Ebbitt and St. James. Business trou- | Scaling. Mr, George Alfred Townsend—Was|of 1850. It w muel Handy’s | 197, neazly half scenes photographetl in Y he | WAy A0d KO ars, of till the verge |bisso, and died voung: Ristorl, witr e e T daughtee st who became the wife editorial introductory to that work was| ¢ ¢he civil war. 1 then moved up ;_Laborde, | ples, losses and competition In photog- | culty be made to burs, while the the London exhibition of benefit to “To go through the old, thick a Sol La; Vestvalli, Fri i the photographer. J an Franois Trévelyan Miller, Whit: ntag, Lagrange, Vestvalli, Fritzillini, & T Yo Brady—Indeed, it was, That|Samuel Dandy mbrried four, timen, written by . er, | OF Waway to between White and |Sontsg Lesrange, Vestvall, FRUHIEL | ooy reduced him to the status of a |shade that it casts prevents inflamma- | dusty Books in which the eight thou- trod man Bame iy e aaal e ¢ oy | 8and ‘Brady negatives stored in the | S01tOF In sharge, and ,{Enm‘,“cm,“g:‘;’l Franilin, ar flul'lo":flé‘{:r;“}: Btreet, | e wtage: Morinsl, Siss Duckworan, | Very poor man. - In 188 he was struck | ble grass from growlng near the pro- v tected st 3 ;fi.‘,‘;},";’a’,f,':,’::fi',':&.f,:f:’, e ot | N exandria. Her mother was the second | Handy home are indexed would be 100 | Gy written by Henry Wysham Lanier, | {ngton city. From the firat T regard D e e S joory. | b, & vehicle) ALE1Sth atoes: fand Hew “Tt is “thought that it Is owing to where o e and Naples. | Wife of George M. Kendall, a brother of | ing0 i "3° hewspaper for such a list, | art editor and publisher. One of the lllus- | ¢q myself under obiigation to my|Avonta Jones, who Was a Washinglon | York avenue and injured, so that he|tnis peculiar system of melf-protec- When in 1860 the Prince of Wales m.-:&' %;2.'«.’:‘6".‘:{‘.3’?.‘.";..:“303 But under the letters “A~ and “B* The trations ls &J-&l":ml:hgmmot country t8 vn-;rv,;l’:::r:gce- of its FiT Ot .WZ.:_“nce o A iad Gage,| walked only with the aid of crutches. |tion which the pine seedlings bave | came to America 1 was surprised)Gem rhmant. who BUILt the house] Star man marked down these: Gen.|Brady afier the 2ri W A'wiih plack | M'3fer rady was a man of tull and]iiud BTEOK 80P nhwn For: One of the clippings before the writer | developed that the growth of the o arty came fo my gailery and re- Tand avenue southwest. | Abercromble, Emma Abbott. Benator | Siowinghm &8 & SROL MU, Rion and | rich ‘memory. He had talked with®feo% dgsl % ACSUA MR SEICACT |save that he was struck by a street|restricted in regions whers fires have N e sat B0 X St thy Duke of | o Samuel Handy snd Mary Anne 3 Y e beard and wearing funny looking | posed, photographed and presumably |yine” grenp e Ferooet - ‘William | car. and another that he was struck by raged, while pure pine forests have Deatedly Bt e Srace. might I ssk | Bright had two children, Juliet Hant | ioner of polic: A beard and WS auster and with & | betabilshed pleasant relations with | g® g rAteR TAVE Bawin | earriage, and In none of the clippings |taken'their plac Neweastle: O o foesr to y stu-| &Y, Who became Mre Brady, ledge of Iilinois, Gov. Sword at his side. Accompanying that|President Santa Anna of Mexico, S Booth, Charles Keen and his: = i u £ S %hre you mot the Mr. Brady?’ he Samuel Handy, who married % [South Carolina, L. L. Ainsworth of Towa, [picture is this te Houston of Texas, Walker the fili-|Tree ‘Charles Matthews, Jaseph Jeffer- | As ”:!vm: 1 s ef_thlg lacclr oot sh::i A T e e aime yeura Frances Whitmors of Alexandrit, A0d | john Alllson, Yesiatiar of the Treasury: | Tag tademtasle war Sbotosusher, 1n the | buster, Quitman, Lopcy yihe ‘reyolt |aon” fames & Rackett, Jo Broseharm. | many” other men: have learned, ihat & Explosions. enator Alcorn |88 , Gen. Ben- i - | tionist, e N . al e - e ‘allack, i snerati » self. We had your plac of busine Y e Hath are dend. famin Aivord, . Ropresentative” Willlam | sec at tve At ¢ nh{?":fi l:fin‘n.':m:"':t;:. Father Matthew, the témperance|jumes H. Wallack sk alys. BATES | s pochievements in one Eeneration /OLCANIC explosions are comman- o T had TRLIIACS efore” e | Amone s srsognityis f Sauc, Sen; | e, e’ Sob din ot Ml | B Sl et o 00 BRI | apontl Komhih, D, i St i Sibert Hoiioeg oMb, | Fnis s ACHEICRRE DU | U 1y regurded ae e riuse of started. a take plc-|oWRer of that collection of Brady | Ames, Hon, J. A. Ambier, Gen. Thomas |*cheme for ictariag the war. Brady v 8| avhe, Winfleld Scott, Zacariah Tay- | William Vincen e 3 Bohalk. | him money which he saved. In Januars. | oo ey of energy kept confined by ex-? Mr. Townsend—DId you take pic-| Seatives, now in the family home on | Aniic: 0% 5 Ag ATDITe O™ andraws, | ork Irisiman by birth asd pometsed o 80 | 107 Y mes Gordon Benmett, the elder; | tana.” held the stage for. years and airs D e may onllapeed or IO tures in England in 1512 (| jipe | MATYISNG svenue. He married Mise|U. g A. anil-siavery conatituitonal con- | jus ivey tompsrament which” woch W ocila | lor, James Goract Benneri J1° Mibert | from which ‘are otl sung and DInyed: | Fok wity sad was taken to. o hotpitel, | and wereer oraptions are aploal of Mr. = > Jusie Gessfo! ughte: vent, Andersos A - ie | “and a host the i . land geyser eruptions are typical of Wircman, the Earl of -Carlisie and | 30018, FoQeiort™ and sister of Maj. | veon (rouR)i Col Robert Anderaon |things, Letered® an ot aighits of that faval %T“,'.',“"u.w.‘l‘a“.'," T ounands | Among the litorary patrons of Mr, | There he died. "In none of the articles | 1y clags of outbreaks. An i:mn of others. In Paris I took Lamartine,|Gegaford, present chiet of police. They | Anderson, C. 8. A.; Gen. George T. An- alone #ad uns Do lost his way . the elder Booth and thoumn e | Brady were George “Banerort, Baward | o "seaell 13 15,4014 how he came to c Cavaignec and others, and Mr. Thomp- | have three children, Levin Gessford inta; Btig Gon 3 . of others. s, vm“ Wy “would | Everett, Longfellow, Whittier; Bayard his delth' In The Evening Star of |the United States geophysical labora- son, with me, took Louis Napoleon,|pmandy, a patent attorney in Nn-‘yvtsg.l«lz C. 8. A. . E < * | vatti kes i he m-a:l fl:‘.‘.m‘y’"fie"?m ehief note of your | Taylor, Hawthorne, Prescott ‘the hij | January 18] 1896, is the following: tory finds that another class of ex- then freshly emperor. Handy, wite of e Wens .kl e you would be invited | torian, John P. Kennedy, William Cul-| M. B. B;luh the_well known photographer, | plosions, that of explosive mixtures ~ ry 0 So ese- original negatives of | Bvans, who lives conversation and O h e oo ThamRbt be- & 725, ol B " e 10 Bryane. soim G Sue N, F. Wi, | St 1ox bty Seke e nlt 2 I | L e, are mot kel to 0c be the news of his around by rris, Dr. Holmes, G. P. th sincere sor. | cur in volcanoes. But a third at 763 by Mr. "y . 8. 1l the rince and his party. taken by Mr. | Church road, Miss Handy, | Loui dams, Brady Slation to tell your personal recollec- at his New York studio in 1860 | who lives at home. z R. James, ] passing away wi wl are Brady & athington, and the groud pic- | " Another descendant of Samuel Handy | {on, B, oy Adame: Carter BIAX- | 10, Tiorant oy es him st proodly weariag | tions of this great fellow and that Pova ano ey the historian, J. K. | fow' iy Muidreds who bave known him during | that of explosive compounds brought ture accompanying this story Wwas|was Elisabeth, who marrisd Samuel Willia W, B | the weapon whi was prepa grande dame. Mr. | leck, Henry T. Tuckerman, George H. N-l long ‘and eventful career. into contact with oxygen or water, is printed from one of those negatives.|Mundy, & cabinetmaker with the firm "James G. Blaine,\B. H, | the protection of himself aad his Drecious neg-| = Among the clippings which Mr. | gge, SCal oo Uit HIOrES e | e ied e & hn:fxlve of New York, Yhere | more probably the usual source of And this leads to telling what sug-|of W. B. M Sons for many x o | atives.: Brady preserved and which he seemed Who _wrote “Sparrowsrass | few months.ago,’ A g o et ape’ne | Yolcanic explosions, and is lllustrated to think much of was a long story on re"; Mitchell, who was Tke Mar- | Wes run over one day while crossing the street | bY aluminum sesquloxidefincly di- Further along the same writer pro- bl the subject of his gallery and collec- Frank Forrester, Tom - Thampe | &t the corner of New York avenue and 1dth | vided—brought —into such = Fel B the photographer. Anne Mundy, who became the wife of 5 . . W, 7 'Z‘ir at corlaction o!Tl:,rldy nega- | Robert Lyons of ;n- lntlhropo;lunhl:‘ Dr. Stephen Bloomer Baleh. Col B, 3 raphical sketch of Mr. ":a“ v;rlll;nhforpl'l‘he E;Z'"".‘g'n flS!:hre:: {Tom Owen the Béo'Hunter). Tom street and for many months he lay ia the hot witn water In the fi!:fitfil‘; lu:nu: X I ‘Ban! and another dau P > 1891 lohn F. Coyle. ' 10 en ‘life and death. Vhen mechanical cause e e T Y sy all of them R e Bekac (Halle-BY Nathas It 1 clahriy “worth while {0 séads for & % | siorien o F e “Coyle ‘are excel- | Hushen (Tom Brown at Oxford and |fnaliy he recorered he was oniy abie o 50 |violent explosion. The dust of Mont Iy all of them being is the wife of Frederick Harpe, 000 of them, nearly & | who 2 rP' Brady. who was so ready o1 "ianag of newspaper work with a|of Arcticfame, J. J. Audubon, w"“;‘l:; m::nm:“c;-;:nn and existence was almost a ,,‘e,“l may have I‘R!Ild‘ analogous to the i aluminum sesquioxide. the negatives of men and women, and [an editor in Roanoke, Va. actor; Ge by which he eome those 10,000 plates one can find | Handy, another descendant of Sam! Barnard, b o Fak his lite for the idea by which he ma | {i B ary flavor. There'is nothing | Lioyd Garrison, Wendel Phillips, James | He began life s a photographer in New the image of nearly everybody of note eral y 3 far beyond what he or Any other man could | careless and sloppy in them. I am go-|Lenox, Mrs. Sigourney, Morse, | York city far back in the days wlhen daguer: 1 that ing to take from Mr. Coyle's stories | Prof. Henry and Henry Wykoff. ype: in vogue and soon became known T Unique Way to Explode of oses & Bristow, A N e woriting of this story about | years. They had two chilaren, Mary |Breckinti ot i e LTS Babeock, Rev, L. B. W. Balah, K hist up to about 1894 in American history up the names .of Deo whose portraits| It might-prove tiresome to many read- He saw the value d dating far back in the country's 3o J e saw in Bradys collection, other|ers to langthen this list of names. Most | il ocSipation &x an adjunct (o, the ‘b outh. The making of these nega-|at Giesboro s6Ve) n actress; Gen. {lvn began In 1842, and those of 1842 | railroad business. Then- there is Wil- su n G. Battle, C. 8. A.; Thomas .F. | the m’g,':.. his success than those already mentioned. Here |of the names are familiar to men of | characters. To Bra j-':.:(u accurate por- to 1852 to 1862 include hundreds of 80! dun h " doubtedly stimulated and imspired they are: l'l‘;m' '{‘ education and experience in | traiture of scores of men of great historic men and women wh fame was|who married Miss Il.:r! u| omas H. Be: f men all over the war re * %k ¥ % d:. but ‘perhaps there are readers to- | prominence in the first half of the century, as T Eripncat 1 THS, 36 g, 138, o | v v e A ey s Briehe L St Ve | e S s S Aol | s prominent In wasbington (82, TH0 e e pept s LR R T :rdolnhlry men in 1842 and the years | Handy, & photographer. trict of Columbia; e o ,fl%fl:fl:‘fl""fi; and New York soclety: Mrs. A.[tory of a distant city. “Gath,” in his | daguerreotypes of Webster, Clay, Calhous. HERE has been practiced in Eu- rope, more or less, & curious meth- od of exploding minés, based upen the eral John Quincy Adams, S8am Houston and many 14 of sound waves, It is known following, when as old men and wom- *Ex® Beck, Henry Wi o | oot ) e 1Y, o'k Hew Tock a8 | V.- Brown, whose husband was Mr.|WOnE ioterview with Mr. Brady. wrote |otner men famous in their day. Coming. to|sciio > ke their pict s G. T. tabilshment | o . & sprightly “Introduction” to his nar- r s, laborato: rim e Brady make thel Do M BRADY 1o at reat in the Handy tor "Arkansas, 00, e ot 8,05 1 the gt setablieimest | Buchanan's Postmaster General, and |rative, T i R o yon ere | Ysskizetee 1e the secty s0e Me Beiey e | Cr0Im Ia e Yine lot in Congressional cemetery. roungater’ mg:umm who died while in office; Mrs. Jacob &'l'l-“ g g hounsehold word all over | | T minded . A n y SO::E‘“M":; ';::y"::? :;":::“h: There b:‘ s m T mmamm Tot | G s Gordon Bervats o el o WU Taks :;mmmm:nc:::::n:l;c:‘::: ,.,{,,,,' m‘v,s:“ The: Toen who Gaguer| . The llstrated o-roals during the war sad.| drical resonator. and the fundsmer 5, Inscri] 0 my e wi Feol rs. of I note is soun g 8 wi sought them, because in the 100n of | peloved husband, Samuel B Handy, who Nighous B ; B %o vt chen tvor: | Ste. Ciinbors; Men.. Fitspatrick of | Madison, Ges. ‘Jockstn aad Fos, | ha plctures of batfieselds and bis portraite of | {igeit in & plane perpendioular to the their fame the art of “picture taking” -nine e e Aot | Alabems. now Mrs Judge Clopton, one | LIyt o maiy s yoar. 7 Thought | BrotiOull o mportaat and viluable negatives | cylinder. By causing such u turning piogliegasts Yir, and Brad tgomery of thd most attractive from her power | "\ TR%Je0l TUAY & FENE oy oy Ofag the four years from 1861 to 1865 which | disk, governed by sound waves, to gressed 0 y, & Aftet of repartee and conversational bril-|ward' the’vision from some past ve sefved to iilustrate that great gle as | complete an eléctric ciroult, it hus man of sentiment and ideals, wanted % unius. lancy; 'fl‘m Goflrr:: H P:.lllli og Ohio sar, flgfl B, raty ts ners ly been pictared. J oy ¢ | been found pe.lllbl "ITOIM for that his cameras and his plates should and her sister, Marshall of Cali- | & ives eight years longer were present warship to explode & mine : DY: fornia, two of the handsomest of that | feach -the twentieth century at the age of|scenes on bat camp, hospital, during on & trangmit likenesses. of these people to (T S . (hedes - whilon . Dasted :-re-t;?r':: .:2:;5 Yoo ms head | the march an about ariny Tendguatiers :h:"“'}__ D g e e s Tebtr viewe AvTher other generations. Eight thousand bam, Braxton Brags, C. 3 at 3 such beantiful women as Mrs. Dgug- Giumuds Eree TR e