Images of Harpers Ferry

Map of the Harpers Ferry Region

Reproduced in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859 (New York, 1911)

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"The house at the Kennedy Farm"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in November 1859 and reproduced in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859 (New York, 1911)

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"The Fighting at the Engine House"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in October 1859 and reproduced in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859 (New York, 1911)

 

 

 

 

"John Brown and His Sons in the Engine House"

from a woodcut appearing in James Redpath, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (Boston, 1860)

"Interior of the Engine House During Attack by Marines"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Weekly Illustrated Paper on November 5, 1859 and reproduced in Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (New York, 1929)

 

 

"The Storming of the Engine House"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Weekly Illustrated Paper in October, 1859 and reproduced in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859 (New York, 1911)

 

"The Prison and Court House at Charles Town, Virginia"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in November 1859 and reproduced in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859 (New York, 1911)

 

 

 


"Governor Wise Examining Prisoners"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Weekly Illustrated Paper on October 29, 1859 and reproduced in Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (New York, 1929)

 

"The Trial of John Brown"

from a woodcut appearing in James Redpath, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (Boston, 1860)

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"John Brown's Last Prophesy"

Reproduced in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859 (New York, 1911)


"John Brown Riding to His Execution"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Weekly Illustrated Paper on October 29, 1859 and reproduced in Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (New York, 1929)

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"John Brown Ascending the Scaffold"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Weekly Illustrated Paper on December 10, 1859 and reproduced in Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (New York, 1929)

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"The Execution of John Brown"

from a woodcut appearing in Frank Leslie's Weekly Illustrated Paper on December 17, 1859 and reproduced in Robert Penn Warren, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (New York, 1929)

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John Brown

from a daguerreotype taken around 1857 and reproduced in Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859 (New York, 1911)

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