Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States
Original Photographs Taken on the BATTLEFIELDS During the Civil War of the United States
By Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner
Who operated under the Authority of the War Department and the Protection of the Secret Service
Rare Reproductions from Photographs Selected from Seven Thousand
Original Negatives Taken under Most Hazardous Conditions in the
Midst of One of the Most Terrific Conflicts of Men that the
World Has Ever Known, and in the Earliest Days of
Photography—These Negatives Have Been in
Storage Vaults for More than Forty
Years and are now the
Private Collection of Edward Bailey Eaton
Valued at $150,000