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The Magnet and the Iron: John Brown and George L. Stearns

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51. Busts of John Brown and George L. Stearns on Display

Attribution:
Long, Jules
Attribution Statement:
Image copyright Tufts University

52. Tufts College Engraving

Attribution:
Unknown
Attribution Statement:
Tufts Digital Collections and Archives

53. Bust of Reverend Hosea Ballou II

Attribution:
Story, William Wetmore
Attribution Statement:
Image courtesy of the Tufts University Permanent Collection, AI 01500

54. Portrait of Hosea Ballou

Attribution:
Unknown artist
Attribution Statement:
Image courtesy of the Tufts University Permanent Collection, AI 01565

55. View from Ballou Hall, 1876

Attribution Statement:
Tufts Digital Collections and Archives

56. John Brown Daguerreotype

Attribution:
Washington, Augustus
Attribution Statement:
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchased with major acquisition funds and with funds donated by Betty Adler Schermer in honor of her great-grandfather, August M. Bondi

57. Letter from John Brown to George L. Stearns, August 10, 1857

Attribution:
Brown, John
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

58. Colonel Edward Needles Hallowell's Sword

Attribution:
Unknown
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of Medford Historical Society & Museum

59. The Hanging of John Brown (Hugo)

Attribution:
Hugo, Victor
Attribution Statement:
From John Brown by Victor Hugo, 1860.

60. Battle Hymn of the Republic

Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

61. Advertisement for John Brown Medallions, 1864

62. George L. Stearns Obituary, The Radical

Attribution:
Johnson, Samuel

63. In Memorium: George Luther Stearns

Attribution:
Unknown artist

64. Antislavery Crib Quilt

Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum

65. Rev. Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Attribution:
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
Attribution Statement:
Image courtesy of the Tufts University Permanent Collection: Gift of Friends of E.H. Chapin, AI 05500

66. John Brown's Northern Supporters (Secret Six)

Attribution Statement:
Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection.

67. Program for the Dedication of the Stearns Estate Marker, 1987

Attribution Statement:
Tufts Digital Collections and Archives

68. Pike, Possibly Used at Harpers Ferry

Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum

69. Major George L. Stearns

Attribution Statement:
Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection

70. Sgt. William Carney, Medal of Honor Recipient

Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

71. William Harvey Carney, c. 1864

Attribution:
Ritchie, John

72. "Brackett's Bust of John Brown" by Lydia Maria Child, New York Tribune, 11 Feburary 1860

Attribution:
Child, Lydia Maria

73. "John Brown and the Colored Child" by Lydia Maria Child, 1860

Attribution:
Child, Lydia Maria

74. Shipwrecked Mother and Child, 1851

Attribution:
Brackett, Edward Augustus
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum, Gift of Edward Augustus Brackett.

75. Paul Curtis House, Massachusetts Historical Commission Paperwork (1/2)

Attribution:
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Attribution Statement:
J. Herzan and B.R. Pfeiffer. Paul Curtis House. National Register of Historic Places, 1976 (on file at Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston).

76. Julia Ward Howe, 1906

Attribution:
Eksergian, Carnig
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Elfrieda K. Bowditch, in memory of her husband, Manfred Bowditch, to the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Harvard Medical School.

77. Storming Fort Wagner

Attribution:
Kurz & Allison Lithography Company
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

78. Lydia Maria Child's Pocketwatch

Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum

79. John Brown's grave and the "Big Rock," North Elba

Attribution:
Stoddard, S.R.
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

80. Harper's Weekly Meteor Shower, 1860

81. "New England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day"

Attribution:
Child, Lydia Maria
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

82. A Portrait of the Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns, 1855

Attribution:
Andrews, John
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

83. Illustrated Emancipation Proclamation

Attribution:
Rosenthal, Max
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

84. Booker T. Washington, C. 1895

Attribution:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

85. Arrest and rescue of Franklin Sanborn, Harper's Weekly, 1860

86. 1937 Inventory of Tufts College Sculptures

Attribution:
Tufts College
Attribution Statement:
Tufts University Permanent Collection

87. College Avenue, 1870

Attribution Statement:
Tufts Digital Collections and Archives

88. College Avenue, 1910?

Attribution Statement:
Tufts Digital Collections and Archives

89. College Hill Station, 1886

Attribution Statement:
Tufts Digital Collections and Archives

90. John Brown Bust Cabinet Card (Litchfield Studios)

Attribution:
Litchfield Studios
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of anonymous. Used by permission.

91. Mary E. Stearns Will Excerpt, 1901

Attribution:
Stearns, Mary E.

92. Stearns Highboy

Attribution:
Frothingham, Benjamin, Jr. (unconfirmed)
Attribution Statement:
Image copyright Tufts University

93. Marching On! 55th Massachusetts Colored Regiment

Attribution:
Unknown artist
Attribution Statement:
From Harper's Weekly, v. 9, 1865, p. 165.

94. George L. Stearns Portrait and Signature

Attribution:
Pack Brothers
Attribution Statement:
Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum

95. Busts of John Brown and George L. Stearns

Attribution:
Long, Jules
Attribution Statement:
Image copyright Tufts University

96. Stearns Grandfather Clock

Attribution Statement:
Image copyright Tufts University

97. Photograph of George L. Stearns

Attribution Statement:
Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection

98. Rev. Hosea Ballou Grave Monument, Mount Auburn Cemetery

Attribution:
Brackett, Edward Augustus

99. Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial

Attribution:
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

100. The Stearns Estate, 1899

Attribution:
William Hauk
Attribution Statement:
Image courtesy of the Tufts University Permanent Collection