Mathew B. Brady
1866, 13 April
Mr. Brady

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Published in J. Werge "Rambles among the Studios of New York: p.171-173 in "The Photographic News", Vol.X, No.397, April 13, 1866.
 
Mr. Brady, who has an elegant gallery on the corner of Tenth Street and Broadway, is also one of the oldest landmarks of photography in too city of New York. He commenced the Daguerreotype business in Fulton Street, low down Broadway, many years ago. As the sea of commerce pressed on and rolled over the strand of fashion, Mr. Brady was obliged to move his "lighthouse" higher and higher up Broadway, until he reached his present " location," miles above where he first began. Mr. Brady seems to have set the Franklin maxim of "three removes as bad as a fire" at defiance, for he has made three or four removes to my knowledge, each one higher and higher up Broadway, and to more elegant, commodious, and expensive premises, each remove entailing the cost of more and more magnificent furnishing, until his last essay in upholstery culminated in a superb suite of black walnut and green silk velvet; in short, Longfellow's " Excelsior " seems to be the motto of Mr. Brady.
 
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