Object number:
2010.54.13572
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
John Brown
Maker:
Frank Cieciorka
Date made:
1969
Material / Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 23 in, W: 17.5 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
Poster
Content description:
This poster contains a black and white illustration of a man's face with a long beard. There is an irregular, red background behind him and red text above reads "'I, John Brown, am not quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.' / --Written on / the day of / his execution". [John Brown led a 1859 anti-slavery raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia. -LMC]
Concepts:
abolitionist; beard; male
Persons:
John Brown
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