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

1. Untitled (College Hill from Medford)

Date:: ca. 1865
Attribution Statement:: Image courtesy of Tufts University Permanent Collection, AI 07400
Exhibit Tags:: paintings Paul Curtis House Medford Tufts University Tufts University Permanent Collection

2. 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

3. College Ave., Tufts College, Medford, Mass. Postcard

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Lefavour Map of Tufts College in Medford and Boston

Creator:: Lefavour, R.W.
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University Tufts DCA maps College Avenue Stearns Estate Cousens Gymnasium Medford Somerville

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Colonel Edward Needles Hallowell's Sword

Date:: C. 1860s
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: Edward N. Hallowell 54th Mass. Infantry Regiment objects Civil War Medford Historical Society and Museum

16. Lydia Maria Child's Pocketwatch

Date:: 1835
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: objects Lydia Maria Child Medford Historical Society and Museum

17. 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

18. 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

19. Stock photos of the Medford/Somerville campus, including the outside of Tisch Library, East Hall, Dowling Hall, Carmichael Hall, and the Hillel Center. Photo 003

Creator:: Loeb, Brian
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University Tisch Library Tufts DCA photographs Medford Somerville buildings

20. 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

21. 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

22. Tufts College, 1899

Date:: 1899
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University photographs Curtis Hall Paige Hall Ballou Hall Goddard Chapel East Hall Packard Hall West Hall College Avenue Medford Historical Society and Museum Medford

23. 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

24. Stock photos of the Medford/Somerville campus, including the MIDI lab in Halligan Hall, Aidekman Arts Center, the front of Cousens Gym and the athletic fields. Photo 043

Creator:: Schutzengel, Aaron
Exhibit Tags:: Cousens Gymnasium Tufts University photographs Tufts DCA Medford buildings College Avenue

25. Antislavery Crib Quilt

Date:: 19th century
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Medford Historical Society & Museum
Exhibit Tags:: objects Edward N. Hallowell Medford Historical Society and Museum

31. 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

32. Fletcher School Holiday Card, 2003

Date:: 2003
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: photographs Paul Curtis House Tufts DCA Tufts University Lydia Maria Child Medford buildings

33. Tufts College Engraving

Date:: 1855
Attribution Statement:: Tufts Digital Collections and Archives
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University Tufts DCA Ballou Hall Packard Hall Medford drawings

34. College Avenue, 1870

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

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

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

36. Tufts College: Pansy farm #4, basketing pansies (B)

Creator:: Bolles, Edwin C.
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts DCA Stearns Estate Medford photographs

37. View of the Hill from Stearn's estate

Creator:: Rollins, Edwin B.
Exhibit Tags:: Tufts University Stearns Estate Tufts DCA photographs Medford Ballou Hall East Hall Packard Hall West Hall buildings

38. Goddard Chapel

Exhibit Tags:: Goddard Chapel Tufts University photographs Tufts DCA Medford buildings

39. 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

40. 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

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

Date:: 1845
Attribution Statement:: Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Exhibit Tags:: Lydia Maria Child Paul Curtis House Medford music publications Library of Congress

42. Front entrance to Eaton Hall, ca. 1950

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

43. Stearns Estate Marker

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

44. 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

45. 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

46. In Memorium: George Luther Stearns

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

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1. Untitled (College Hill from Medford)

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

3. College Ave., Tufts College, Medford, Mass. Postcard

4. Excerpt from Medford Walling Map, 1855

5. Excerpt from Medford Brainard Map, 1880

6. View of Medford and Stearns Estate, 1874

7. View Towards Medford from East Hall, 1875

8. Chase Map of Tufts College in Medford and Boston

9. Lefavour Map of Tufts College in Medford and Boston

10. Residence of George L. Stearns

11. Photograph of the Stearns Mansion, 1899

12. Obituary of Mrs George Luther Stearns, 1902

13. Road to the Stearns Estate

14. College Avenue Photographic Postcard

15. Colonel Edward Needles Hallowell's Sword

16. Lydia Maria Child's Pocketwatch

17. George L. Stearns Portrait and Signature

18. Old Windmill Tower on the Stearns Estate

19. Stock photos of the Medford/Somerville campus, including the outside of Tisch Library, East Hall, Dowling Hall, Carmichael Hall, and the Hillel Center. Photo 003

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

21. Pike, Possibly Used at Harpers Ferry

22. Tufts College, 1899

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

24. Stock photos of the Medford/Somerville campus, including the MIDI lab in Halligan Hall, Aidekman Arts Center, the front of Cousens Gym and the athletic fields. Photo 043

25. Antislavery Crib Quilt

26. Map of Tufts College

27. Pansy Park, ca. 1910

28. Tufts Campus View (Painted), n.d.

29. Construction of Counsens Gymnasium, 1931

30. Cousens Gymnasium, 1952

31. Stearns Village, n.d.

32. Fletcher School Holiday Card, 2003

33. Tufts College Engraving

34. College Avenue, 1870

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

36. Tufts College: Pansy farm #4, basketing pansies (B)

37. View of the Hill from Stearn's estate

38. Goddard Chapel

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

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

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

42. Front entrance to Eaton Hall, ca. 1950

43. Stearns Estate Marker

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

45. View from Ballou Hall, 1876

46. In Memorium: George Luther Stearns