Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War

by Jennifer Armstrong

Book Overview

Mathew B. Brady was already a famous photographer by the time the Civil War began. But the war gave Brady something else:
The chance to make a RECORD OF A WAR -- this war -- in a way that had never been done before: WITH TRUE-TO-LIFE PICTURES INSTEAD OF JUST WORDS. He hired field photographers to travel with the troops, equipped them with cameras and wagons filled with supplies, and sent them out with the directive to make...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689857853
• ISBN13: 9780689857850
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9