Edmund G Ross taken by Brady - Washington DC .R19 Governor Edmund G. Ross
Brady acquired a reputation as one of America's greatest photographers -- producer of portraits of the famous. In 1858 he opened Brady's National Photographic Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. The city provided him with access to the nation's leaders and foreign dignitaries. As he himself said, "From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers." He became one of the first photographers to use photography to chronicle national history.