Birthplace of Samuel Morse, Charlestown, Massachusetts.

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Smithsonian Institution
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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
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photograph
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No
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Smithsonian Photography Initiative, Smithsonian Institute
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Public
Original caption
Birthplace of S.F.B. Morse - Charlestown - Built 1775 - Mass
Source citation
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

The Execution of John Brown, December 2, 1859, detail

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John Osborne
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr(New York, Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929), 434
Source note
Cropped from the larger original, also available.

The Execution of John Brown, December 2, 1859

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John Osborne
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr(New York, Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929), 434
Source note
Original woodcut appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper on December 17, 1859.

John Brown on the steps of the Scaffold, December 2, 1859, detail

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John Osborne
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr(New York, Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929), 434
Source note
Cropped from the larger original, also available.

John Brown on the steps of the Scaffold, December 2, 1859

Scanned by
John Osborne
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr(New York, Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929), 434.
Source note
Original woodcut appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper on December 10, 1859.

John Brown rides to the Scaffold, December 2, 1859, detail

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John Osborne
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr(New York, Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929), 410.
Source note
Cropped from the larger original, also available.

John Brown rides to the Scaffold, December 2, 1859

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John Osborne
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr(New York, Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929), 410
Source note
Original woodcut first appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in December, 1859.

John Brown's Prophesy, December 2, 1859

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John Osborne
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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
document
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No
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Public
Source citation
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 554.

Governor Wise of Virginia interviews the Prisoners, October, 1859, detail

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John Osborne
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Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr(New York, Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929), 381.
Source note
Cropped from the larger original, also available.

Governor Wise of Virginia interviews the Prisoners, October, 1859

Scanned by
John Osborne
Scan date
Notes
Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (New York, Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929), 381.
Source note
Original woodcut appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper on October 29, 1859.
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