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Matthew Brady
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Hotel in Saratoga opens.
matthew Brady went searching for a cure there. -
Birth
Matthew Brady was born in Warren County, New York. He was the son of Andrew and Julia Brady -
Eye problems
Matthew Brady gets afllicted with eye inflammation. -
He searches for help, but ends up meeting william page.
Matthew Brady goes traveling to places like albany and saratoga, looking for a cure. However he meets a portrait painter named William Page, and through him he met Samuel B. Morse, an art teacher at the New York City University. -
Daguerreotypes
The invention of Daguerreotypes. -
Meets Samuel Morse
Through William Page, he meets Samuel Morse, who is like a mentor to him. He was a professor of art at the New York City University. He teaches Brady about the art of Daguerreotypes. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial revolution really changed the way anyone lived. -
Brady moves to New York
Brady moves and starts living in New York City. -
Brady opens on broadway
Brady opens up his first Broadway studio -
Brady takes on his ''Illustrious Americans" project
Brady Took portraits of many great american minds of the 19th century. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Calhoun, and Horace Greely. -
Matthew Brady presents his portraits
Mathhew Brady, later that year in october, presented these daguerreotypes portraits of these essential american people at the American Art Institute awards, and won an award for them. He received these awards for many more years to come. -
The awards start.
The American art Institiute awards start and artists and photographers start displaying their work. -
Great potato rot
The great potato rot occured and caused mass migration because of fear of migration. -
Brady's Book
Brady put his daguerreotypes of these famous americans into a book, called the gallery of illustrious americans. -
Brady wins London award
Brady wins medal in the fair of all nations in London, England. -
Modern Newspapers
New modern newspapers were invented. In order to see Matthew Bradys product you had to actually see the newspapers. -
Civil War starts
The civil war started and buisiness was booming for people like brady, because he was paid to take pictures of what he saw during the civil war. -
Civil war ends
The civil war caused 600,000 deaths of soldiers. -
Surrender
Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grant in the Appatamox courthouse. -
Costs are raised.
When finances got high, many people were left bankrupt. -
Brady's Bankruptcy
Brady sells his opukent broadway studio in New York City and then filed for bankruptcy. -
Bradys car crash
Brady got into a car crash. -
Brady's death
Brady never fully recovered from the car crash, and died lster in January, 1896.
