Horace Greeley and Editorial Staff of the
New York Tribune

Mathew Brady Studio
[Editorial Staff of the New York Tribune]
(1811-1872)
Gold-toned, half-plate daguerreotype, ca. 1850
Prints & Photographs Division
U.S. War College transfer, 1920 (35.6)

Horace Greeley, seated at center, the eccentric publisher of the New York Tribune, personified the ebullient spirit of 1850s American politics. A founding member of the Republican party, passionate in his belief that all Americans should be politically and economically free, he spoke out against monopolies and in support of labor unions and experiments in "constructive democracy."