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Images of John Brown

Daguerreotype of John Brown
(circa 1847)
taken by Augustus Washington
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
John Brown
(before acquisition of beard which typifies him as the stormy prophet of emancipation).
(circa 1850)
Copy of daguerreotype,
National Archives and Records Administration
John Brown
bust-length ,
ca. 1856
Engraving from daguerreotype,
National Archives and Records Administration
John Brown
Photograph by Black and Bachelder. (1859)
Library of Congress.
Lithograph of John Brown
circa 1859)
three-quarter length portrait, facing left, holding New York Tribune, Library of Congress
John Brown,
head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right
Library of Congress.
Inscribed on print: Mrs. Hellen Brodt painted 1864.
John Brown Exhibiting His Hangman
(1865)

Broadside,
Library of Congress
Freedom's immortal triumph! Finale of the Jeff Davis Die-nasty
(1865) Lithograph  
Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, Library of Congress
John Brown,
The Martyr

(1870)
New York: Currier and Ives, Library of Congress
The Last Moments of John Brown
(1884)
by Thomas Hovdenden,
deYoung Museum, San Francisco
Arraignment of John Brown
Drawing by James E. Taylor (1899)
John Brown, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right; reproduction of 1850s photograph(?) (c1899)
The Tragic Prelude
Mural by John Steuart Curry
(ca. 1937-42)
State Capital of Kansas

The Legend of John Brown,
( 1941)
Jacob Lawrence
gouache

Picture of John Brown
(1943)
In the frontspiece of John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After by Villard.
Trial of John Brown
Sketched by Porte Crayon, reproduced from Leslie's Illustrated Weekly. Brown is pictured lying on a stretcher, still recovering from the sword wound inflicted by Israel Green.

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