Title Info Brady-Handy Collection
Alternative Title Info HTML source title: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Brady-Handy Collection - About
ListSets setName: Brady-Handy Collection (Photographs)
ListSets title: Records for collection of glass negatives from the Brady-Handy Collection, digitized by the Library of Congress
Name Aquifer submitter Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign thabing@uiuc.edu Thomas Habing
Associated Project Aquifer American Social History Online http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/
Type Of Resource still image
Genre Photographs / slides / negatives
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Origin Info Completely irregular
District of Columbia 20540 United States Library of Congress [National Library]
Language eng
Physical Description image/jpeg
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Abstract In 1954 the Library of Congress purchased from Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans, the daughters of Levin C. Handy approximately 10,000 original, duplicate, and copy negatives. The L.C. Handy Studio had been located at 494 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Levin C. Handy (1855?-1932) was apprenticed at the age of twelve to his uncle, famed Civil War photographer Mathew B. Brady (1823?-1896). Handy became an independent photographer and over the years owned studios in partnership with Samuel Chester and with Chester and Brady. The Maryland Avenue studio was the most permanent and was the place where Levin Handy resided at his death in 1932. In the 1890s Brady himself had worked and lived at the Maryland Avenue address.
E. and H.T. Anthony acquired Brady's Civil War negatives as payment for his debt to that photographic supply company. These negatives, distinguished by the prefix LC-B8, were purchased by the Library in 1943 and are known as the Civil War Photographs; those materials are available separately in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.
The remaining negatives in the Brady-Handy studio that came to the Library through the 1954 purchase are known as the Brady-Handy Collection and are distinguished by the prefix LC-BH8. The majority of the Brady-Handy negatives are of Civil War and post-Civil War portraits, with a small collection of Washington views. The online collection shown here includes primarily original glass plate negatives. Many duplicate and copy negatives were not scanned. Three series with the LC-BH8 prefix are not shown here, but are included in the Civil War Photographs because of their close connection to the Civil War negatives.
Subject North America (continent)
Late 19th Century (1868-1900)
Modern (1701-present)
General Resources
Arts--Photography
Social Studies--United States history
Arts
Social Studies
Brady, Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896, photographer.
Handy, Levin C. (Levin Corbin), 1855-1932, photographer.
Cruikshank, William, photographer.
American Culture
Identifier http://dlf.grainger.uiuc.edu/DLFCollectionsRegistry/Collection/622
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Location http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&set=brhc&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&set=brhc&metadataPrefix=mods
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/brhchtml/brhcabt.html
Access Condition Access is permitted; subject to Prints & Photographs Division policy on serving originals.
Images in the Brady-Handy collection are considered to be in the public domain.
Record Info Records originated with the DLF Newsletter, 2000-2005, from which they were converted into a FileMaker database. The FileMaker DB was imported into a database system currently maintained by the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Records for collections added after 2005 were created in this database as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. This database is currently being maintained as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. 2008-04-23 eng English Digital Library Federation (DLF) oai:dlfcollectionsregistry.grainger.uiuc.edu:622
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