#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #February14, 1849 In #NYC, #MatthewBrady takes 1st surviving #POTUS photo when he makes a #Daguerreotype of #JamesKnoxPolk.
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#Truthiness

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
-- Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910)

#historical photo by #MatthewBrady from the #LibraryofCongress collection

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Now we are so inured that’s the problem. One hundred fifty years after Antietam, Sally Mann shows Antietam cornfields from the position of a dying soldier looking up at the blazing sun. Her images invoke a sense of the needless death of all wars, present-day included #matthewbrady #civilwar

Historic Manuscripts & Texana Treasures Fetch $1.5 Million for Heritage – Antiques & The Arts Weekly ...#ThomasJefferson #CherokeeNation #HeritageAuctions #HistoricalManuscripts #TexasHistory #AbrahamLincoln #MatthewBrady #AlbertEinstein #SamHouston #AmericanaAuction #PoliticalHistory #RareManuscripts #Collectibles #AuctionHighlights #HistoricTexana Heritage Auctions in Dallas held a two-session sale on March 28, 2024, featuring 364 lots of historical manuscripts, many with Texas connections. The sale achieved a total of $1,517,035, with 325 lots successfully sold. The highlight of the auction was a polygraph copy of Thomas Jefferson’s address to the Cherokee Nation, which sold for $187,500.

Historic Manuscripts & Texana Treasures Fetch $1.5 Million for Heritage – Antiques & The Arts Weekly

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#OTD #TDIH #February14, 1849 In #NYC, #MatthewBrady takes 1st surviving #POTUS photo when he makes a #Daguerreotype of #JamesKnoxPolk.
#JamesKPolk #HistoryOfPhotography #Daguerreotypes #USPresidents #USHistory
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