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[Plenty Horses' trial, group no. 1] – Antique Print

[Plenty Horses' trial, group no. 1] — historic photograph
[Plenty Horses' trial, group no. 1]. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Plenty Horses' trial, group no. 1] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This group portrait shows the defendants and court participants gathered for the trial of Plenty Horses, a Lakota man charged in the 1890 killing of an Army lieutenant near the Pine Ridge reservation. The case came to court in 1891, in the uneasy months after the Ghost Dance movement and the Wounded Knee massacre had drawn federal troops into the region. Trials like this one attracted newspaper attention across the country, and photographs of the people involved were rare. The picture is worth studying for its record of who sat in the room and how a legal proceeding involving a Native defendant was staged for the public.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1891.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,203 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125605

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