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John Brown portrait collection

Title: John Brown portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1960?-1989?>

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Brown, John	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<52> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
<25> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<32> photomechanical prints : b&w ;
<1> photonegative
<1> photostat : b&w ;
<2> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<2> photoprints : albumen, b&w ;

Summary

Views, mostly reproductions, of and about abolitionist John Brown as depicted in photographs, drawings, etchings, newspaper clippings and announcements dated approximately between 1850 and 1859. Collection includes half-length portraits of Brown; images of his wife, mother, father and sons; artist's renditions of the Harper's Ferry Insurrection, Brown's trial and Brown right before hanging; buildings related to Brown including homes, a tannery and a fort; views of his grave and a memorial in North Elba; views of areas in Tabor, Iowa and battlefields in Iowa; and reproductions of newspaper clippings, broadsides and a declaration of liberty written by Brown's son Owen.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Uniform Title

Harper's weekly.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1880-1939.
Portraits.
Postcards.
Stats.
Photonegatives.
Photomechanical prints.
Silver gelatin photoprints.
Reproductions.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some images are duplicates; some contain captions and written descriptive information; some have been reproduced from the collection at the Library of Congress.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Brown, John

OCLC

NYPG085000300-F

Title

John Brown portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1960?-1989?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait collection.

Local Note

Negatives available for some images.

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Added Author

Barnes, T. H. Artist

Stedman. Photographer

Pollia, Joseph P. Artist

Hovenden, Thomas, 1840-1895.

Added Title

Harper's weekly.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Brown, John

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