Charles Town, Virginia, during the trial of John Brown, October, 1859, detail

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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.
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engraving
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Public
Original caption
The Prison, Guard-House, and Court-House, Charlestown, West Virginia (The Prison is on the extreme left)
Source citation
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 486.
Source note
Cropped from the larger original, also available.

Charles Town, Virginia, during the trial of John Brown, October, 1859

Scanned by
John Osborne
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
Original caption
The Prison, Guard-House, and Court-House, Charlestown, West Virginia (The Prison is on the extreme left)
Source citation
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 486.
Source note
Original woodcut appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in November, 1859.

The Storming of the Engine House, October 18, 1859, detail

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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
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
The Storming of the Engine House
Source citation
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 452.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available.

The Storming of the Engine House, October 18, 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
Original caption
The Storming of the Engine House
Source citation
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 452.
Source note
Woodcut originally appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in October 1859.

Inside the Engine House during the Marines' Attack, October 18, 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), 364.
Source note
Cropped from the full image, also available. Original woodcut appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper on November 5, 1859.

Inside the Engine House during the Marines' Attack, October 18, 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), 364.
Source note
Woodcut first appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper on November 5, 1859.
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