Mathew Brady: portraits of a nation

Introduction: "Photo by Brady"

"A craving for light"

"This great national map"

"In daguerreotypes...we beat the world"

"Large copies from small originals"

"Startling likenesses of the great"

"Wonderful strangers"

"Last place...to see the nation whole"

"Illustrations of camp life"

"A continuous roll of musketry"

"More eloquent than the sternest speech"

"The terrible reality and earnestness of war"

"Brady and the Lilliputians"

"Rebel invasion"

"That memorable campaign"

"The ball has opened"

"A photographic pantheon"

"Familiar as household words"

"The stings of poverty"

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index.