Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co. – Antique Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.
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Unlike most pictures on this board, this one documents a painted spectacle rather than a battlefield: its record names the Boston Cyclorama Company and an 1889 date for "Scenes from Custer's Last Fight." Cycloramas were huge circular paintings, often viewed from a central platform so that the scene seemed to surround the viewer. This one depicts the June 1876 fight at the Little Bighorn, in which George Armstrong Custer and about 200 men of his regiment were killed by Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors. The catalog notes that the caption data is unverified, so the exact subject and maker of this print should be checked before relying on them.
| Created / published | 1889 May 27. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 850 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108918 |
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