Custer Monument, Monral, Michigan – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Custer Monument, Monral, Michigan. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Custer Monument, Monral, Michigan
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Monroe, Michigan, honors George Armstrong Custer with a monument, and this photograph shows it as it looked around 1929, according to a caption card the Library has not fully verified. The record spells the town "Monral," which is most likely a transcription error for Monroe. Custer, the Union cavalry officer who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, had close ties to the town, and memorials like this one became common in the decades after his death. Photographs from this period are useful for seeing how such monuments were sited and presented to the public.
| Created / published | c1929 Dec. 30. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | J04417 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,115 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160451 |
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