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Mathew Brady and Photography during the Civil War Mathew Brady was the son of Irish immigrants, and was born in 1823 near Saratoga Springs, Warren County, New York. Leaving home at the age of sixteen in 1839, he went to the city of Saratoga, where he met William Page, a renowned artist, who took Mathew in as a student. In the fall this same year, Page took Mathew to New York City where he introduced him to Samuel F.B. Morse, known for his invention of the telegraph in 1838, and who also was an accomplished painter and professor of painting and design at New York University. It would be here that Morse accepted Brady as a painting student. To help with his expenses, Brady worked as a department store clerk, and within a short time, opened his own small business manufacturing jewellery cases. Meanwhile, Samuel Morse had visited Paris, France, and while their met Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype. Morse was impressed with this invention and brought it back to the United States. Back in New York, Morse established a studio and began to offer classes in its instruction. Mathew Brady, fascinated with the possibilities it provided in photography, worked long hours to save the money to enrol in Morse's class. Having mastered the daguerreotype, Brady soon acquired a reputation as one of the nations finest photographers, and in 1844, opened his own studio in New York. Twelve years later, Brady expanded his operations and opened a studio in Washington, D.C., so that he would be closer to the nations leaders and could easily photograph them. Brady then went on to greater fame by his invention of the tinted daguerreotype rendered on ivory. In 1855, Brady invited Alexander Gardner to America. Gardner, an Englishman, had perfected the wet-plate process of photography that had been invented by Scott Archer. Under the careful guidance of Gardner, Brady deserted his work with the daguerreotype, and pursued this new wet-plate method. |
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| Egyptian Gods | |
| E1 | Isis Wife of Osiris Mother of Horus |
| E2 | Osiris Husband and Brother of Isis |
| E3 | Hathor A Sky Goddess |
| E4 | Sekhmet A Lion Headed Goddess of War |
| E5 | Thoth An Ibis Headed Divinity |
| E6 | Anubis A Jackal Headed God |
| E7 | Nephthys Goddess of the Dead |
| E8 | Sobek Admired and feared for his ferocity |
| 110mm Figures | |
| RC 110.1 | Grenadier French Imperial Garde 1812 |
| RC 110.2 | British Private 3rd Foot Guards 1815 |
| RC 110.3 | German Infantry Private Russia 1943 |
| RC 110.4 | Colonel General Erwin Rommel |
| RC 110.5 | German Panzer N.C.O 1940 |
| RC 110.6 | German Afrika Korps Jäger 1943 |
| RC 110.7 | German Paratrooper 1940 |
| RC 110.8 | French Hussar 1808 |
| RC 110.9 | British Paratrooper 1944 |
| RC 110.10 | Marine United States Marine Corps The Pacific 1944 |
| RC 110.11 | Russian Infantry Private 1943 A choice of helmet and side cap is included in this kit |
| RC 110.12 | General Montgomery 1942 |
| RC 110.13 | Piper The Gordon Highlanders 1910 |
| RC 110.14 | Napoleon |
| RC 110.15 | Mathew Brady The Famous Photographer of the American Civil War |
| RC 110.16 | British Private Infantryman 1916 |
| RC 110.17 | German Infantryman 1916 |
| RC 110.18 | German Infantryman 1914 |
| RC 110.19 | United States Artillery Officer 1917 |
| RC 110.20 | French Infantryman 1914 |
| RC 110.21 | British Cavalryman 1914 |
| RC 110.22 | French Infantryman 1916 |
| RC 110.23 | British Royal Marine 1914 |
| RC 110.24 | Warrin Bassingbourne |
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