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John Brown and his Sons in the Engine House, Harpers Ferry, October 17, 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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No
Original caption
"With one son dead by his side, and another dying, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand and held his rifle with the other."
Source citation
James Redpath, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (Boston, MA: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), 261.
Source note
Cropped from larger image, also available.
John Brown and his Sons in the Engine House, Harpers Ferry, October 17, 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
Original caption
"With one son dead by his side, and another dying, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand and held his rifle with the other."
Source citation
James Redpath, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (Boston, MA: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), 261.
The Trial of John Brown, October 27, 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
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No
Source citation
James Redpath, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (Boston, MA: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860)
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available.
The Trial of John Brown, October 27, 1859
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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
Source citation
James Redpath, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (Boston, MA: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860)
Initial Fighting at the Engine House, Harpers Ferry, October, 1859, detail two
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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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No
Original caption
Harper's Ferry: The Fighting at the Engine House
Source citation
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 444.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available.
Initial Fighting at the Engine House, Harpers Ferry, October, 1859, detail one
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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
Original caption
Harper's Ferry: The Fighting at the Engine House
Source citation
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 444.
Source note
Cropped from the larger original, also available.
Initial Fighting at the Engine House, Harpers Ferry, 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
Original caption
Harper's Ferry: The Fighting at the Engine House
Source citation
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 444.
Source note
Engraving frist appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in October, 1859.