john brown

John Brown riding on his coffin to the place of execution [Charlestow...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 9, no. 211 (1859 Dec. 17), p. 36. Wood engraving by Arthur Berghaus. Caption card tracings: A/P/P... More

[John Brown, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

27388 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.A. Huff, Osawatomie, Kansas. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

North Elba, John Brown's grave, Adirondack Mts., N.Y.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Death warrant of John Brown]

Reproduction of painting copyrighted 1906 by E. Avey. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Bridge Piers, Junction of Pot...

Survey number: HAER MD-16 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1838 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1842 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1851 Sub... More

John Brown, three quarter length portrait

Photograph showing three-quarter length portrait of John Brown, with beard, facing slightly right. Reproduction of daguerreotype attributed to Martin M. Lawrence. From records in Copyright Office: 12th of Dece... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

R. Edmunds -- Serge Diaghileff -- John Brown

Photograph shows (right to left) John Brown, business comptroller of the Metropolitan Opera, Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russes and Ralph Edmunds who was connected with the Metropolitan Opera Company. (Source... More

John Brown - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sartain, William.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Bridge Piers, Junction of Pot...

Survey number: HAER MD-16 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1838 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1842 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1851 Sub... More

Trial of John Brown. A review of the trial of "Ossawatomie" Brown, the...

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The last moments of John Brown (leaving the jail on the morning of his...

Print shows John Brown, under heavy guard, kissing a young African American child, as he leaves a jail on his way to the gallows. Includes a remarque of Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing left. Q17090 U.S. ... More

John Brown Cutting to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1788

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

John Brown House, 52 Power Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Survey number: HABS RI-75 Building/structure dates: 1788 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 68000007

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

Samuel Adair Cabin, John Brown Memorial Park (moved from original site...

Significance: Not only is this structure a typical frontier cabin but is also notable because John Brown made his headquarters here. Survey number: HABS KS-18 Building/structure dates: 1854 Initial Constructi... More

Samuel Adair Cabin, John Brown Memorial Park (moved from original site...

Significance: Not only is this structure a typical frontier cabin but is also notable because John Brown made his headquarters here. Survey number: HABS KS-18 Building/structure dates: 1854 Initial Constructi... More

Thaddeus Hyatt to Parley Hammond, Saturday, September 22, 1860 (Hyatt...

[John Brown, 1800-1859, bust portrait, facing right in memorial frame]

Frame includes words "The Just man shall be in eternal remembrance -- Gave his life for the liberation of the slave."

[John Brown, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

Public domain photo of man portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the steps of Cha...

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

Edwards House, John Brown's Roadway, Waterford, Loudoun County, Virgin...

Survey number: HABS VA-781 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000256

Trial of John Brown. A review of the trial of "Ossawatomie" Brown, the...

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Trial of John Brown. A review of the trial of "Ossawatomie" Brown, the...

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

Samuel Adair Cabin, John Brown Memorial Park (moved from original site...

Significance: Not only is this structure a typical frontier cabin but is also notable because John Brown made his headquarters here. Survey number: HABS KS-18 Building/structure dates: 1854 Initial Constructi... More

The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Replacing a more modest structure that dated back to 1803, it was built in 1836 on land donated by George Washington's brother, Charle... More

John Brown exhibiting his hangman., engraving, Library of Congress

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Brown and Caruso - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows John Brown, Business Comptroller of the Metropolitan Opera in New York with opera singer Enrico Caruso. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Carte d' visite: Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904

Reproduction number: LC-MSS-44297-33-115 (b&w negative) Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Bridge Piers, Junction of Pot...

Survey number: HAER MD-16 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1838 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1842 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1851 Sub... More

Trial of John Brown. A review of the trial of "Ossawatomie" Brown, the...

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

John Brown to Andrew Jackson, December 28, 1813

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Brown-Parrott House, State Route 680, Crozet, Albemarle County, Virgin...

Significance: The house is one of the relatively few survivors of Eighteenth-Century architecture (ca. 1782) in western Ablemarle County and is an excellent example of a vernacular, hall-parlor house, exhibitin... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

John Brown House, 52 Power Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Survey number: HABS RI-75 Building/structure dates: 1788 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 68000007

John Brown House, 52 Power Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Survey number: HABS RI-75 Building/structure dates: 1788 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 68000007

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

[John Brown, 1800-1859, full-length portrait, lying wounded on floor b...

Wood engraving from sketch by Porte Crayon in Harpers Weekly. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Portrait of Tyrone Power, in "John Brown's body"]

Power on stage reciting "John Brown's body." Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI KK 1. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms p... More

Trial of John Brown. A review of the trial of "Ossawatomie" Brown, the...

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

John Brown to Andrew Jackson, December 28, 1813

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Brown-Parrott House, State Route 680, Crozet, Albemarle County, Virgin...

Significance: The house is one of the relatively few survivors of Eighteenth-Century architecture (ca. 1782) in western Ablemarle County and is an excellent example of a vernacular, hall-parlor house, exhibitin... More

Brown-Parrott House, State Route 680, Crozet, Albemarle County, Virgin...

Significance: The house is one of the relatively few survivors of Eighteenth-Century architecture (ca. 1782) in western Ablemarle County and is an excellent example of a vernacular, hall-parlor house, exhibitin... More

Brown-Parrott House, State Route 680, Crozet, Albemarle County, Virgin...

Significance: The house is one of the relatively few survivors of Eighteenth-Century architecture (ca. 1782) in western Ablemarle County and is an excellent example of a vernacular, hall-parlor house, exhibitin... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

[Portrait of John Brown] - Public domain portrait

Photograph showing three-quarter length portrait of John Brown, with beard, facing slightly right. Blind stamp on recto: Lawrence's Photographs, 381 Broadway, cor. White St., New York. Autograph on label paste... More

John Brown's grave and the "Big Rock," North Elba / S.R. Stoddard, Gle...

50473-BB U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Brown's grave at North Elba [N.Y.]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY Elba; BI; Death; Geogr.; Shelf. Brown, John, 1800-1859. Sources checked: MUMS; BI; BF; En Am - North Elba- siet of Brown's farm;... More

John Brown to James Madison, August 23, 1834. With a postscript by Man...

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

The last moments of John Brown (leaving the jail on the morning of his...

Print shows John Brown, under heavy guard, kissing a young African American child, as he leaves a jail on his way to the gallows. Includes a remarque of Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing left. Q17090 U.S. ... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

John Brown House, 52 Power Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Survey number: HABS RI-75 Building/structure dates: 1788 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 68000007

John Brown House, 52 Power Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Survey number: HABS RI-75 Building/structure dates: 1788 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 68000007

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

Kennedy Farm, Chestnut Grove Road, Samples Manor, Washington County, M...

Significance: The building was used by John Brown as a rendezvous during the summer preceding the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey numbe... More

[John Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing left, holding New Y...

Public domain photograph of male portrait print, engraving, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Brown, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front H. Sartorius

On card mount: Dennington, No. 947 Water St., Meadville, PA. Photograph of painting by H. Sartorius. Unpublished finding aid available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

John Brown and Fred'k Douglas [i.e. Douglass]

Two head-and-shoulders portraits surrounded by ferns. No. 1539. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Brown' John Browns body music record

Public domain scan of music disk label, pathephone record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Battle hymn" a new play about John Brown of Harpers Ferry by Michael ...

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).

[Portrait of Tyrone Power, in "John Brown's body"]

Power on stage reciting "John Brown's body." Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI KK 1. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms p... More

"Marching on!"--The Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Colored Regiment singing...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 9, 1865 March 18, p. 165.

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

The execution of John Brown, in a stubble field, near Charleston, [W.]...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 9, no. 210 (1859 Dec. 10), pp. 24-25. Caption card tracings: P&P Case; US Hist.; BI; Shelf.

Elizabeth Hough Schooley House, Main Street & John Brown's Roadway, Wa...

Survey number: HABS VA-789 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000256

John Brown from a daguerreotype loaned me by Annie Brown

Photograph shows John Brown, half-length portrait, facing front with arms crossed. Caption continues: Regarded as the best picture by the family. On card mount: Handy 494 MD. Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. Unpubl... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Bridge Piers, Junction of Pot...

Survey number: HAER MD-16 Building/structure dates: 1836 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1838 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1842 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1851 Sub... More

Brown-Parrott House, State Route 680, Crozet, Albemarle County, Virgin...

Significance: The house is one of the relatively few survivors of Eighteenth-Century architecture (ca. 1782) in western Ablemarle County and is an excellent example of a vernacular, hall-parlor house, exhibitin... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More

Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfort, Franklin County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-62 Survey number: HABS KY-20-2 Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Subsequent Work Buil... More