Men shot and bleeding, John Brown and others with rifle and pikes, and hostages inside the engine house of the Harpers Ferry Armory. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 8, no. 205 (1859 Nov. 5), p. 359.
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Photograph shows John Brown, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right with hands in pockets. Entered According to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J.W. Dodge, in the Clerks Office of the Dist More
Photograph shows reproduction of painting by J.W. Dodge, possibly John Wood Dodge, of abolitionist John Brown standing with hands in pockets. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D07 More
Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Battle Hymn" at the Experimental Theatre, east of Broadway, showing a silhouette of John Brown. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Issued in the North during the Civil War, the melodramatic portrayal of an apocryphal incident from the life of John Brown must have had unmistakable propagandistic overtones. In actuality a violent antislavery More