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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.

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 Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1930 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).