John Browns Cave near Harpers Ferry – Antique Wall Art
![John Browns Cave near Harpers Ferry, [between 1860 and 1865] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fd/fdd3a17628cb-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: John Browns Cave near Harpers Ferry, preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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John Browns Cave near Harpers Ferry
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Pencil and Chinese white on green paper set this drawing apart from other views of Harpers Ferry: it shows a cave near the town that is tied to John Brown, the abolitionist who used hideouts in the surrounding hills while planning his October 1859 raid on the federal armory. The record also tags the scene with African Americans and a railroad, a reminder that the Baltimore and Ohio line ran through the town and that the raid's aftermath and the Civil War later drew the community into national events. Harpers Ferry changed hands several times during the war, which made it a frequent subject for soldiers and artists in the early 1860s. The sheet's date range places it during that period, when Brown's raid was still fresh in public memory.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1865] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on green paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 16.6 x 23.3 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Brown, John,--1800-1859. African Americans--1860-1870. Caves--1860-1870. Railroads--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historic sites.United States--West Virginia--Harpers Ferry |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,038 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111860 |
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