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Matthew Brady

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    Matthew Brady

  • Hotel in Saratoga opens.

    matthew Brady went searching for a cure there.
  • Birth

    Birth
    Matthew Brady was born in Warren County, New York. He was the son of Andrew and Julia Brady
  • Eye problems

    Eye problems
    Matthew Brady gets afllicted with eye inflammation.
  • He searches for help, but ends up meeting william page.

    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

    Daguerreotypes
    The invention of Daguerreotypes.
  • Meets Samuel Morse

    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 on broadway
    Brady opens up his first Broadway studio
  • Brady takes on his ''Illustrious Americans" project

    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

    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 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'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 London award
    Brady wins medal in the fair of all nations in London, England.
  • Modern Newspapers

    Modern Newspapers
    New modern newspapers were invented. In order to see Matthew Bradys product you had to actually see the newspapers.
  • Civil War starts

    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

    Civil war ends
    The civil war caused 600,000 deaths of soldiers.
  • Surrender

    Surrender
    Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grant in the Appatamox courthouse.
  • Costs are raised.

    Costs are raised.
    When finances got high, many people were left bankrupt.
  • Brady's Bankruptcy

    Brady's Bankruptcy
    Brady sells his opukent broadway studio in New York City and then filed for bankruptcy.
  • Bradys car crash

    Bradys car crash
    Brady got into a car crash.
  • Brady's death

    Brady's death
    Brady never fully recovered from the car crash, and died lster in January, 1896.