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The Setting: New York — September, 1850

Souvenir of New York

 

Tim is a ten-year-old boy from sleepy Staten Island who is told he must apprentice at Mathew Brady’s studio on Broadway in 1850.

 

 

Souvenir of New York, 1851,
by John Bornet
Courtesy of the New York Public Library

 


Brady's Broadway Gallery at Fulton Street

Brady's Daguerreotype Gallery on Broadway

 

Brady of Broadway — Tim is sent to work at Mathew Brady's Daguerreotype Gallery on the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street. Brady is one of the pioneers in photography who studied the daguerreotype process under Samuel F.S.B. Morse.

 

 

An advertisement for Brady's Gallery
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Barnum's American Museum

Barnum's American Museum

Across from Brady’s Gallery is Barnum’s Museum. Jenny Lind is the most sought-after celebrity by all the Broadway photographers, except that her manager, P.T. Barnum, will not grant Brady access to the Swedish Nightingale.

Broad-Way, New York, 1850, by August Köllner.
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Tim - The Story of Timothy H. O'Sullivan

The Story of Timothy H. O'Sullivan as a Young Apprentice at Mathew Brady's Studio on Broadway in 1850...

Tim - The Story of Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Tim is a ten-year-old boy from sleepy Staten Island who is told he must apprentice at Mathew Brady’s studio on Broadway in 1850.

Tim - The Story of Timothy H. O'Sullivan

As Tim takes the ferry over to York, he takes us back to New York’s forgotten past and the history of photography...

Tim - The Story of Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Across from Brady’s Gallery is Barnum’s American Museum filled with all its relics and wondrous curiosities.

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