John Brown Pike
date: label: date made
content: ca 1858
name: label: maker
content: Blair, Charles
notes: label: Description
content: This pike was among 950 pikes that John Brown acquired to arm slaves incited to rebel by his raid on Harpers Ferry. The raid grew out of an earlier plan he devised in the mid-1840s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert Hinckley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.258924
label: catalog number
content: 258924
label: serial number
content: 26
label: accession number
content: 51210
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pike
label: Other Terms
content: Edged Weapons; Army
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 81 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 206.375 cm x 11.43 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 80 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 204.7875 cm x 12.065 cm