MARION -You're sitting at home one night, and someone kicks your door in. MARION - For Civil War enthusiasts, a visit with famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady would be... MARION - The fact that Ross Carley spent more than 35 years as the head...

An upcoming event offers the next best thing. "Mr. Lincoln's Cameraman: An Evening with Mathew Brady," will be presented at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Stengel-True Museum, 504 S. State St. It is part of a collaborative effort between that museum and the...

Lincoln's path to the White House began with a speech in New York City. And a photograph taken the same day would provide images that helped introduce the candidate to the American public. An engraving based on a photograph by Mathew Brady. Brady...

(John Kelly/THE WASHINGTON POST) - Knight Kiplinger and his father, Austin, stand with some of the 38 boxes of historical images that were donated to the Historical Society of Washington. (Courtesy of the Kiplinger Washington Collection) - Photographer...

L’Enfant plan for Washington. A four-plate engraved map of Virginia and Maryland was made by surveyors Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson’s father. Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse by Mathew Brady (Courtesy of Kiplinger Washington Collection)...

War was the first war to be documented in such detail with pictures. The volume and detail of these pictures made the American public hungry for more and more details. To further this desire for information Samuel Morse, of Morse code fame founded a...