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GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER (1839-1876) Major General of Volunteers and Colonel in the United States Army. After the Civil War he was engaged in various expeditions against the western Indians. Impetuously attacking a vastly superior force of Sioux under Sitting Bull on the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, he and his immediate command were annihilated.
Copyrighted by: State Historical Society, Museum of Wisconsin
American
Medium/Technique
Chromolithograph (Heliochrome) on card stock.
Dimensions
Vertical: 14 x 8.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession Number2015.8466
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPostcards
DescriptionBack: divided. Mint.
T.B. Walker Collection Copyright by The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Printed by Arthur Jaffé Heliochrome Co., New York City, U.S.A.
T.B. Walker Collection Copyright by The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Printed by Arthur Jaffé Heliochrome Co., New York City, U.S.A.
ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)