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

1. Stearns Highboy

Attribution Statement:: Image copyright Tufts University
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate photographs Tufts University objects Ballou Hall

2. Stearns Village, n.d.

Creator:: Unknown
Attribution Statement:: Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: photographs Tufts DCA Stearns Village Tufts University buildings Medford

3. Major George L. Stearns

Date:: 1863
Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection
Exhibit Tags:: George L. Stearns Civil War photographs West Virginia State Archives

4. Stearns Grandfather Clock

Attribution Statement:: Image copyright Tufts University
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate objects Tufts University Mary E. Stearns Ballou Hall

5. Stearns Estate Marker

Date:: 1987
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate Cousens Gymnasium Tufts University photographs Medford plaques College Avenue

6. The Stearns Estate, 1899

Date:: 1944
Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of the Tufts University Permanent Collection
Exhibit Tags:: paintings Stearns Estate College Avenue Tufts University George L. Stearns Tufts University Permanent Collection Ballou Hall Goddard Chapel East Hall West Hall College Hill Station Curtis Hall Packard Hall Medford Mary E. Stearns Paige Hall Miner Hall

7. John Brown's Hair, Given to Mary E. Stearns

Date:: 1859
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: John Brown objects Mary E. Stearns documents Medford Historical Society and Museum

8. View of Medford and Stearns Estate, 1874

Date:: 1874
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: George L. Stearns John Brown Tufts University Stearns Estate photographs Medford Mary E. Stearns Tufts DCA

9. Mary E. Stearns Will Excerpt, 1901

Date:: 1901
Exhibit Tags:: Mary E. Stearns George L. Stearns Tuskegee University Hampton University Berea College Middlesex Probate and Family Court documents

10. Photograph of George L. Stearns

Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection
Exhibit Tags:: George L. Stearns West Virginia State Archives photographs

11. Residence of George L. Stearns

Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate George L. Stearns Mary E. Stearns drawings Medford Historical Society and Museum Medford College Avenue

12. Road to the Stearns Estate

Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate photographs Medford Historical Society and Museum Medford College Avenue

13. George L. Stearns Obituary, The Radical

Date:: 1867
Exhibit Tags:: George L. Stearns Samuel Johnson publications The Radical

14. Obituary, Mrs. Stearns of Medford, November 1901

Date:: 1901
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: publications Mary E. Stearns Medford Historical Society and Museum

15. Photograph of the Stearns Mansion, 1899

Date:: 1899
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: photographs Stearns Estate Mary E. Stearns George L. Stearns Medford Medford Historical Society and Museum buildings

16. Henry L. Stearns, Tufts Matriculation Book, 1863

Date:: 1863
Attribution Statement:: Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University Tufts DCA Henry L. Stearns documents

17. Bust of George L. Stearns (Morse), After Restoration

Date:: C. 1879
Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy Tufts University Permanent Collection
Exhibit Tags:: George L. Stearns sculptures Tufts University Permanent Collection

18. In Memorium: George Luther Stearns

Date:: C. 1903
Exhibit Tags:: sculptures George L. Stearns 54th Mass. Infantry Regiment Boston

19. Alfred C. Lane excavating the Stearns Estate, November 22, 1934

Creator:: Munro, Melville S.
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University Medford Tufts DCA Stearns Estate

20. Bust of George Luther Stearns (Morse), Before Restoration

Date:: C. 1879
Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of the Tufts University Permanent Collection
Exhibit Tags:: George L. Stearns Tufts University sculptures Stearns Estate Tufts University Permanent Collection

21. The Stearns Estate by Justin Wyner, Tuftonian Spring 1945

Date:: 1945
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate Tuftonian Tufts University Tufts DCA George L. Stearns Cousens Gymnasium publications Mary E. Stearns Medford College Avenue drawings maps

22. George L. Stearns Portrait and Signature

Date:: 1863
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: photographs George L. Stearns Civil War Medford Historical Society and Museum

23. Mary E. Stearns Will, Executor's Inventory, 1913

Date:: 1913
Exhibit Tags:: Mary E. Stearns documents objects Stearns Estate Tufts University Middlesex Probate and Family Court

24. Obituary of Mrs George Luther Stearns, 1902

Date:: 1902
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: publications Mary E. Stearns Medford Historical Register Medford Historical Society and Museum

25. Old Windmill Tower on the Stearns Estate

Date:: C. 1884-1890
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: photographs College Avenue Stearns Estate Medford Medford Historical Society and Museum

31. Cabinet Card of John Brown Bust (A.C. Russell)

Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection
Exhibit Tags:: John Brown George L. Stearns West Virginia State Archives drawings

32. John Brown Bust Cabinet Card (Litchfield Studios)

Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of anonymous. Used by permission.
Exhibit Tags:: John Brown Edward Augustus Brackett George L. Stearns photographs sculptures Mary E. Stearns Arlington

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

Date:: 1987
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate George L. Stearns Cousens Gymnasium Tufts University Tufts DCA music Mary E. Stearns documents Julia Ward Howe Medford

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

Date:: 1857
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Exhibit Tags:: John Brown George L. Stearns Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery letters documents Iowa Boston

35. Chase Map of Tufts College in Medford and Boston

Creator:: Chase, Ernest Dudley
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University Tufts DCA Stearns Estate Cousens Gymnasium maps College Avenue Medford Somerville Boston

36. Pike, Possibly Used at Harpers Ferry

Date:: C. 1857
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: objects John Brown George L. Stearns Medford Historical Society and Museum West Virginia

37. Edward A. Brackett to George Luther Stearns, 1859

Date:: 1859
Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection
Exhibit Tags:: Edward Augustus Brackett George L. Stearns John Brown West Virginia State Archives letters documents

38. College Avenue Photographic Postcard

Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: photographs College Avenue Stearns Estate Medford Medford Historical Society and Museum

39. View from Ballou Hall, 1876

Date:: 1876
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Packard Hall Stearns Estate Medford photographs Tufts DCA Tufts University buildings

40. A Study of the Campus at Tufts College Showing the Positions of the Present Buildings and Suggesting Possible Locations for Future Buildings, 1932

Date:: 1932
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: maps Tufts University Cousens Gymnasium Stearns Estate Tufts DCA Medford Somerville College Avenue

41. Letter from John Brown to Mary E. Stearns, 1859 November 29

Date:: 1859
Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection
Exhibit Tags:: John Brown letters documents Mary E. Stearns West Virginia

42. 1937 Inventory of Tufts College Sculptures

Date:: 1937
Attribution Statement:: Tufts University Permanent Collection
Exhibit Tags:: documents Tufts University Permanent Collection sculptures John Brown George L. Stearns Tufts University

43. College Avenue, 1870

Date:: 1870
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts DCA Tufts University College Avenue Medford photographs

44. College Avenue, 1910?

Date:: 1910?
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts DCA photographs Medford College Avenue

45. G.L.S. by John Greenleaf Whittier

Date:: 1867
Exhibit Tags:: George L. Stearns John Greenleaf Whittier Atlantic Monthly publications

46. Excerpt from Medford Walling Map, 1855

Date:: 1855
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.
Exhibit Tags:: maps Medford Tufts University Stearns Estate Boston Public Library

47. Excerpt from Medford Brainard Map, 1880

Date:: 1880
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.
Exhibit Tags:: maps Medford Stearns Estate College Avenue Boston Public Library

48. View Towards Medford from East Hall, 1875

Date:: 1875
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Stearns Estate Medford photographs Tufts DCA George L. Stearns Mary E. Stearns

49. John Brown Bust Cabinet Card (Warren)

Date:: Ca. 1882
Attribution Statement:: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection, The New York Public Library
Exhibit Tags:: John Brown photographs Edward Augustus Brackett Mary E. Stearns sculptures Cambridge

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

Date:: 1862
Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection.
Exhibit Tags:: John Brown George L. Stearns Franklin Sanborn Samuel Gridley Howe Thomas Wentworth Higginson Gerrit Smith West Virginia West Virginia State Archives photographs

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1. Stearns Highboy

2. Stearns Village, n.d.

3. Major George L. Stearns

4. Stearns Grandfather Clock

5. Stearns Estate Marker

6. The Stearns Estate, 1899

7. John Brown's Hair, Given to Mary E. Stearns

8. View of Medford and Stearns Estate, 1874

9. Mary E. Stearns Will Excerpt, 1901

10. Photograph of George L. Stearns

11. Residence of George L. Stearns

12. Road to the Stearns Estate

13. George L. Stearns Obituary, The Radical

14. Obituary, Mrs. Stearns of Medford, November 1901

15. Photograph of the Stearns Mansion, 1899

16. Henry L. Stearns, Tufts Matriculation Book, 1863

17. Bust of George L. Stearns (Morse), After Restoration

18. In Memorium: George Luther Stearns

19. Alfred C. Lane excavating the Stearns Estate, November 22, 1934

20. Bust of George Luther Stearns (Morse), Before Restoration

21. The Stearns Estate by Justin Wyner, Tuftonian Spring 1945

22. George L. Stearns Portrait and Signature

23. Mary E. Stearns Will, Executor's Inventory, 1913

24. Obituary of Mrs George Luther Stearns, 1902

25. Old Windmill Tower on the Stearns Estate

26. Mary E. Stearns Will Excerpt, 1901

27. View of the Hill from Stearn's estate

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

29. Busts of John Brown and George L. Stearns

30. George L. Stearns Grave Monument, Mount Auburn Cemetery

31. Cabinet Card of John Brown Bust (A.C. Russell)

32. John Brown Bust Cabinet Card (Litchfield Studios)

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

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

35. Chase Map of Tufts College in Medford and Boston

36. Pike, Possibly Used at Harpers Ferry

37. Edward A. Brackett to George Luther Stearns, 1859

38. College Avenue Photographic Postcard

39. View from Ballou Hall, 1876

40. A Study of the Campus at Tufts College Showing the Positions of the Present Buildings and Suggesting Possible Locations for Future Buildings, 1932

41. Letter from John Brown to Mary E. Stearns, 1859 November 29

42. 1937 Inventory of Tufts College Sculptures

43. College Avenue, 1870

44. College Avenue, 1910?

45. G.L.S. by John Greenleaf Whittier

46. Excerpt from Medford Walling Map, 1855

47. Excerpt from Medford Brainard Map, 1880

48. View Towards Medford from East Hall, 1875

49. John Brown Bust Cabinet Card (Warren)

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