Collection of Sixty-Two Portraits of First Ladies from the Mathew Brady/Levin C. Handy Studio, Washington, D.C.
Entry/Object ID
2010.00.02 -.56
Description
Collection of sixty-two portraits of First Ladies from the Mathew Brady/Levin C. Handy Studio, Washington, D.C. Some of the portraits were taken by Levin Handy and others are copy photographs from earlier daguerreotypes or negatives, prints from other photographers, and others are assembled photographs from an exhibition of First Lady gowns at the Smithsonian. First Ladies include Martha Washington to Eleanor Roosevelt.