Ninth U.S. Cavalry: Troop A - famous Indian fighters [on horseback] – Historic Print
![Ninth U.S. Cavalry: Troop A - famous Indian fighters [on horseback], c1898. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5d/5ddf564fac88-L.webp)
(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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Ninth U.S. Cavalry: Troop A - famous Indian fighters [on horseback] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 stereograph shows Troop A of the Ninth U.S. Cavalry, a regiment of Black soldiers that the Army formed in 1866 and that served mainly on western posts. Its caption calls the men "famous Indian fighters," a phrase that reflects how the press and the Army described frontier service in the 1890s, when the regiment took part in campaigns against Plains and Southwestern tribes. Mounted on horseback, the troopers appear in the paired-image format of a stereo card, which was meant to give the viewer a sense of depth when seen through a stereoscope. The record dates the card to about 1898, though that date comes from an unverified caption.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, U.S.--Troops; African Americans--Military; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 858 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151050 |
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