Guide to Smithsonian Archives. Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Number 4. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 143.
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1982. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 209.
Summary:
5,419 glass negatives from the Matthew Brady Studio are acquired as a group from the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection by the National Portrait Gallery. In FY 1982, modern prints made from the negatives, "produced in the technically correct nineteenth-century manner" were exhibited in a permanent gallery space, shown on a rotating schedule.
