This came out of a Large photo album with mostly CDVs and several spaces for cabinet cards.Most of the photos are from Montreal and many are from New York.While searching to match up brady CDVs online with mine I found several images with the same font on the lower right and left corners of the photo the few that I found were from New York although most seem to be from his Washington studio with a completly different font.
As many early photos buffs know Mathew Brady is most well known for photographing the tragedy that was the American civil war.
That dress is lovely but the hairstyle didn’t do much for her did it?
Ha!Now that you point it out….