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John Brown Photo Chronology
Fourteen photo portraits made by John Brown and his supporters for the purpose of recruitment and promotion are gathered from the archives repositories by Jean Libby, an independent scholar and retired community college history instructor in California.
There are nineteen high-resolution and finely printed enlarged panels in the exhibit which show historical photographic perspectives of the original sittings. Give of the original daguerreotypes are extant at archives and museums.
Just as John Brown was drawn to the latest technology in weapons for a small vanguard army, he was a participant in the photographic processes for effective and deliberate distribution of his image to recruit and to reward supporters.
The John Brown Photo Chronology exhibition is prepared with cooperation from the Boston Athenaeum, Chicago History Museum, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History at the New York Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society, Library of Congress, Massachusetts Historical Society, National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City [Missouri], Summit County [Ohio] Historical Society, West Virginia State Archives, Western Maryland Room of the Washington County Free Library, and The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. |