Matthew Brade 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 a visual record of the war and to show people scenes they could have only read about before. (High School (9-12); College/Adult)
TRC audience:
High School (9-12)
Middle School (6-8)
TRC subject:
Late Nineteenth Century (1866-1899)
Photography
Artist Biography
Picturing America Resource
TRC format:
Book