Brown Brothers re-shot and cannibalized lots of other photographers photos.
They would also just put their stamps on the backs of other press organizations and photo studios photos.
Their stuff is generally always vintage of some sort, and pretty neat...but more of it is Type III or Type IV, then many people realize.
They were not exactly crack photographers themselves.....but were pretty good at re-shooting and re-cropping existing photos.
I don't think that should make any of it worthless, as some seem to think. Much of it is still period and pretty rare. We collect baseball cards of much more inferior quality and put huge premiums on them, despite them being, not much more then later generation printed photos and lithography.
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