File:Albert J. Myer - Brady-Handy.jpg

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Description Albert J. Myer. Library of Congress description: "Gen. A. J. Meyer, U.S.A. Chief Signal Officer"
Date between 1870 and 1880
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03618. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH826- 419 <P&P>[P&P]
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Mathew Benjamin Brady  (1822–1896)  wikidata:Q187850 q:pl:Mathew B. Brady
 
Mathew Benjamin Brady
Description American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death 18 May 1822 Edit this at Wikidata 15 January 1896 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New York Edit this at Wikidata Manhattan Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1844 until circa 1887
date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
New York, Washington, D.C.
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creator QS:P170,Q187850
Levin Corbin Handy  (1855–1932)  wikidata:Q12033170
 
Levin Corbin Handy
Alternative names
Levin C. Handy
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 10 August 1855 Edit this at Wikidata 26 March 1932 / 23 March 1932 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Washington, D.C. Edit this at Wikidata Washington, D.C. Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q12033170
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under the digital ID cwpbh.03618.
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English: Albert James Myer ( September 20, 1828 – August 24, 1880) was a surgeon and U.S. Army officer. He is known as the father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, as its first chief signal officer just prior to the American Civil War, the inventor of wig-wag signaling (or aerial telegraphy), and also as the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau.

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Public domain This work is from the Brady-Handy collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1929 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).

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