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Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co. – Vintage Print

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co., 1889 May 27. — historic photograph
Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co., 1889 May 27.. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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The title names scenes from *Custer's Last Fight*, a panoramic painting of the 1876 battle on the Little Bighorn River, where George Armstrong Custer and his command were killed by Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors. In the 1880s, cycloramas, huge circular paintings viewed from a central platform, drew large crowds to American cities, and this print documents the Boston Cyclorama Company's treatment of the subject. The record comes from an old caption card and has not been verified, so the May 27, 1889 date should be read with that in mind.

Created / published1889 May 27.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 908 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108910

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