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 Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1931 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).
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2008-06-07 00:07 Hlj 1200×1858× (525670 bytes) Photoshop cleanup of Library of Congress (1860s public domain) photograph by Mathew Brady (cleanup by Hal Jespersen). TITLE: Gen. George G. Meade CALL NUMBER: LC-BH82- 4428 <P&P>[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-cwpbh-01198 (digital file from original neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATI