Through the support of the Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation, they have been converted to electronic format for display. Each of the 94 pictures can be viewed at your leisure on at this site. The photographs were donated to Ohio County Public Library in 1950 by W.C. Brown, one of the city's first photographers. The pictures were taken by Brown and his father, according to an article in the News-Register. They had been recently restored by George Kossuth.
Most pictures are two separate files that are designed to line up on the browser.
Not every picture aligns perfectly. Further, the pictures have been scanned to preserve as much of the artistic quality and style of the original. In many cases, the actual subject of the picture is small in comparison to the hillside, sky, etc. Also be warned, the individual files are only lightly compressed, again to preserve the quality of the original, so load time may be over one minute per page. The indexes of Brown Photographs are organized by the dates on each picture.