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A photograph showing a Sharps carbine owned by John Brown, abolitionist and Free State advocate. The Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848. The rifle was possibly given to Brown by a member of the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony in Wabaunsee, Kansas. This photograph is part of the photograph collection and the rifle is not held at the Kansas Museum of History.
Creator: Martin, H. T.
Date: 1880s
Item Number: 843
Call Number: B Brown, John *33
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 843
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Military - Weapons - Firearms - Rifles
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Cabinet cards
People - Notable Kansans - Brown, John, 1800-1859
People - Notable People - Brown, John, 1800-1859
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Cabinet cards
https://www.kansasmemory.gov/item/843
