BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859). Photograph with clipped inscription and lithographic signature ("Your friend John Brown") mounted below, n.d., n.p. [circa 1859]. Oval, 252 x 205 mm. (9 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.) including mount, slightly browned and faded; matted. A large, three-quarter-length sepia photograph of Brown. "John Brown came close to igniting the Civil War a full year before Fort Sumter by organizing a raid on a government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the plan of arming a slave insurrection. He was quickly captured by troops under U.S. Army Colonel Robert Lee and later executed" Wesley Marans. Provenance: Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1970, lot 149). M. Wesley Marans Collection, Christie's 17 April 1996, lot 121. [With:] —STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Cabinet photograph signed ("Harriet Beecher Stowe"), by Hastings, Boston (imprint on mount verso), n.d. [circa 1876]. 165 x 108 mm. (6½ x 4¼ in.) including mount, some minor soiling A bust-length profile portrait of the author, signed on the mount. "Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the story of a faithful black slave and his villainous overseer, Simon Legree - the book credited with helping to precipitate the Civil War. She claimed that God wrote it, and she merely took dictation"--W.M. Provenance: Cornelius Greenway Collection, Part I, Sotheby's Park Bernet, 20 November 1970, lot 4. M. Wesley Marans Collection, Christie's 17 April 1996 lot 93