The Brady-Handy collection is a historical photo archive of the United States. The collection is a cache of "mostly Civil War and post-Civil War portraits, with a small collection of Washington views" purchased by the Library of Congress in 1954, from descendants of Levin C. Handy, nephew and apprentice of photographer Mathew Brady.^[1] The collection included 10,000 original, duplicate, and copy negatives including about 4,000 original wet collidion plates and 1,300 glass plate negatives.^[2] The collection also included 24 daguerreotypes.^[2]

The credited photographers are chiefly—but by no means entirely—Brady, Brady studio, and Handy.^[2] Other photographers represented included Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Alexander Gardner, Cruikshank, and various photographers of Confederate generals.^[2]

There is also a Brady studio register dated 1870 to 1876 that includes notes such as "refunded—Baby would not sit still" and "Capitol Policeman, to be charged half price."^[2]

There were some restrictions on use of the collection in place until 1964.^[2] According to the Library of Congress, all of the images in the Brady-Handy collection have now entered the public domain.^[3]

• Liljenquist collection