The capture and execution of John Brown; a tale of martyrdom
A 1906 book on the capture and execution of abolitionist John Brown, published by the Brethren Publishing House in Elgin, Illinois, and written by Elijah Avey for a general religious readership. Its photographs are plain black-and-white views of buildings, a two-storey house behind a picket fence, a group of men in period dress, and a tall stone obelisk, offering a designer documentary scenes of 19th-century American architecture and memorial monuments.
