John Brown [photograph], 1856.

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John Brown [photograph], 1856.

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Quarter plate daguerreotype portrait of John Brown attributed to John A. Whipple of Boston, Mass. The photo was apparently taken in Boston for Amos A. Lawrence after the Osawatomie affair (1856).

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b & w ; visible oval image 9 x 6¹/₂ cm. (quarter plate), in case 12 x 9¹/₂ cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

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Served with the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; Freedmen's Aid Society, 1866-1873; founded the New England Women's Club, 1868; Boston School Committee representative, 1875-1878; member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1879-1888; president of the Massachusetts School Sufrrage Association, 1880-1888; member and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1880-1886; and member of the Association...

Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...