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Description
English: Sherman, Gen. Wm T. U.S.A. (between 1865 and 1880)
Français : Portrait de Sherman, Gen. Wm T. U.S.A. (entre 1865 et 1880)
Source Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Collection, reproduction number LC-DIG-cwpbh-04445.
Author
Mathew Benjamin Brady (1822–1896)  wikidata:Q187850 q:pl:Mathew B. Brady
 
Mathew Benjamin Brady
Alternative names
Birth name: Mathew Brady Brady; pseudonym: Brady, Matthew
Description American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death 18 May 1822 Edit this at Wikidata 15 January 1896 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New York Edit this at Wikidata Manhattan Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1844 until circa 1887
date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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New York City, Washington, D.C.
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creator QS:P170,Q187850
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(Reusing this file)		 "Published photographs in this collection were created before 1923 and are therefore in the public domain. Unpublished photographs in this collection are also in the public domain as Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932."[1]
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Public domain This work is from the Brady-Handy collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1930 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).

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current02:57, 18 December 2007Thumbnail for version as of 02:57, 18 December 20071,848 × 2,364 (1.86 MB)AzaToth (talk | contribs)Remake from original tiff, less aggressive despeckle, no resize
17:00, 26 December 2004Thumbnail for version as of 17:00, 26 December 20041,200 × 1,600 (565 KB)MarkSweep (talk | contribs)portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman by Mathew Brady {{PD-Old}}

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