Dedication of John Brown exhibit

Photograph

Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

IMG1760

Description

Dedication and grand opening of Package 110 in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Package 110 was one part of the NPS plan to restore the streetscape along Shenandoah Street to the time of the John Brown Raid (1859). Included in Package 110 were the Ann C. Stephenson building (Wetlands Exhibit), the William Anderson building, John C. Unseld building (John Brown Exhibit), and the Gerard Bond Wager building. Each building had park offices on the upper floors. All of the interior photographs are taken in the John C. Unseld building (John Brown Exhibit). IMG1760: Left to right (ltor) Senator Byrd, Superintendent Campbell, and Manus J. "Jack" Fish (Regional Director, National Capitol Region, NPS); IMG1760-2: ltor - Mr. John Nathan Newcomer, Mrs. June H. Newcomer, Mrs. Jeanne Kellam Franzen, Mr. Archie W. Franzen (Architect, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park), and UNK; IMG1760-4: ltor Superintendent Campbell, Mrs. Byrd, Senator Byrd (cutting ribbon); Director Fish, and Reverend Henshaw at grand opening of the John Brown exhibit; IMG1760-5: ltor Senator Byrd, Superintendent Campbell, and Reverend Henshaw on porch outside John C. Unseld building; IMG1760-6: guests at public reception - Preston S. Smith (blue jacket - Public Information Officer); IMG1760-7: ltor Philip Henry Perks (yellow jacket), Robert G. Stanton (Deputy Director, National Capitol Region, NPS), Superintendent Campbell, Senator Byrd, Director Fish, UNK, and Mrs. Byrd; IMG1760-8: view of dedication of Package 110 looking east up Shenandoah Street shows Senator Byrd speaking from porch in front of the Unseld building and guests seated in Shenandoah Street and on wall along arsenal square; IMG1760-9: ltor presentation to Senator Byrd, Superintendent Campbell, and Director Fish (speaking); IMG1760-10: presentation of picture Harpers Ferry in Winter (artist Eric Mohn a quadriplegic who painted holding a brush in his mouth) to Mrs. Byrd - ltor Deborah K. Piscitelli (Director, Harpers Ferry Historical Association), Mrs. Byrd, Director Fish, and Senator Byrd; IMG1760-11: ltor - Mrs. Erma Ora Byrd (wife of U. S. Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd) and Senator Byrd; IMG1760-12: ltor - reception on patio behind John Brown exhibit - in the crowd - Mr. and Mrs. Newcomer (left), Mrs. Byrd, Superintendent Campbell, and Senator Byrd talking with guests (center), Ranger Gwenny Roper (top right), and Director Fish talking with woman seated on bench (lower center); IMG1760-13, IMG1760-14, IMG1760-3: Senator Byrd on porch outside John C. Unseld building addressing guests; IMG1760-15: ltor - Mrs. Byrd; Director Fish, Senator Byrd, and Superintendent Campbell; IMG1760-16: ltor - Mrs. Byrd, Senator Byrd, and Superintendent Campbell in the John Brown exhibit (John C. Unseld building); IMG1760-17: ltor - Superintendent Campbell, Senator Byrd (cutting cake), Director Fish, and Mrs. Byrd at reception behind John Brown exhibit; IMG1760-18: Senator Byrd with four unidentified NPS maintenance employees and unidentified guests; IMG1760-19: ltor - United States Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd and Donald W. Campbell (Superintendent, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park; IMG1760-20: ltor - Superintendent Campbell and Senator Byrd; IMG1760-21 - IMG1760-22: ltor - Senator Byrd (addressing crowd), Superintendent Campbell, Reverend Roger Henshaw (Rector, Zion Episcopal Church), and UNK on porch of the Gerard Bond Wager building.

Acquisition

Accession

358

Source or Donor

Fitzpatrick, Edwin A., III

Acquisition Method

Donation

Credit Line

From the Edwin A. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Fitzpatrick, Edwin A.

Studio

Edwin A. Fitzpatrick, 627 Jefferson Avenue, Charles Town, WV

Date made

Nov 1982

Place

* Untyped Place

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Notes

Date: 1982 November