Brady, Mathew. Mathew Brady, Historian with a Camera by James D. Horan.

Bonanza, 1955. [Reprint] Near mint hardcover with dust jacket. One of the three major books on Brady. Includes Brady's youth and career as Brady of Broadway, one of the premier daguerreotypists in New York; the Civil War years, during which Brady was responsible for most of the photographic documentation that still exists; and the post-war years in which he worked with his nephew, Levin Handy, who eventually took over his studio. Numerous text illustrations of photographs and documents plus Picture Album with 453 photographs, followed by detailed appendices of useful information. Includes portraits of many famous people including Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, John Tyler, John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Dolly Madison, Jenny Lind, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Edwin Forrest, Phineas T. Barnum, Cyrus West Field, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, William H. Prescott, Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, Prince Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Sam Houston, August Belmont, Thomas Hart Benton, William Cullen Bryant, Brigham Young, Caleb Cushing, Junius Brutus Booth, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen A. Douglas, Phoebe Cary, Franklin Pierce, Nicholas Philip Trist, Rembrandt Peale, Judah P. Benjamin, Sir Francis Napier, John C. Fremont, Horace Greeley, Alexander T. Stewart, Martin Van Buren, Louis Blanc, Adelina Patti, Charlotte Cushman, James Buchanan and his Cabinet, Ole Bull, Prince of Wales, John Bell, J.C. Breckenridge, John Brown (abolitionist), Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Edmund Ruffin, Henry A. Wise, Cassius M. Clay, Hannibal Hamlin, Francis B. Cutting, Montgomery Blair, Gideon Welles, Kit Carson, Clara Barton, pugilist Joe Coburn, Tom Thumb, Willliam Pitt Fessenden, Jefferson Davis, Stephen Mallory, Alexander H. Stephens, John Slidell, Allan Pinkerton, John Plumbe, Samuel Morse, William C. Bouch, Generals George Pickett, Braxton Bragg, Jubal A. Early, Turner Ashby, Wade Hampton, Simon B. Buckner, G.J. Rains, John H. Winder, William J. Hardee, James Longstreet, Albert Sidney Johnston, J.E.B. Stuart, George A. Custer, George McClellan, Philip Henry Sheridan, Phil Kearney, Lew Wallace, Judson Kilpatrick, George H. Thomas, James H. Wilson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Emerson Opdyke, Orville E. Babcock, Benjamin F. Butler, John A. Dix, William T. Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, and other officers of note. Also the Lincoln assassination conspirators John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Payne, George Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, John Surratt, et al. Some of the photographs are by photographers associated with Brady such as Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan. Postwar photos include Thomas Edison, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, et al.