BROWN BROTHERS

Brown Brothers is the nation's oldest stock photo agency, established in New York in 1904. We have over hundreds of thousands of photographs and illustrations from prehistory to present with special emphasis on early New York, immigrants, royalty, slums, political movements, rural and urban life, wars, early technology, disasters, politicians, sports, inventors, science, American fads, and celebrities. Our images are used by publishers, producers, museums, and advertising agencies worldwide. Major textbook and encyclopedia publishers have been using Brown Brothers images for over a century... The graphic photographs taken by Brown Brothers in 1911 of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire helped to change labor and fire laws forever. Brown Brothers is the only company that photographed the fire and its aftermath, that remains in business today. Ironically, one year earlier a Brown Brothers' intern, while on a different assignment, had taken what is considered the greatest fire..

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