The Voice of Nettie Mudd

[bob_summers]

(10-09-2012 01:38 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  Bob,

Just for clarification, when do you think the two known photos of Mudd were taken?

Dave, I don't know for sure, but my hunch is that the non-carpenter shop photo of Dr. Mudd, and a companion photo of Mrs. Mudd, were probably taken around 1859 or so when Mathew Brady re-opened his Washington, D.C. studio. An earlier D.C. studio had failed. The two photos are identical in style and framing, with Brady and Washington clearly showing in the margin of Mrs. Mudd's photo.

Regarding the carpenter shop photo, it was most likely taken sometime between February 1867 when Dr. Mudd was first assigned there, and September 7, 1867 when he began ministering to patients after Dr. Smith died at the beginning of the yellow fever epidemic. After the epidemic, Dr. Mudd worked in the Provost Marshal's office.