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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This rare historic photograph captures Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co. in remarkable detail. 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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This photographic print records a display of Custer's Last Fight, presented by the Boston Cyclorama Company and dated May 27, 1889 on its caption card, though the catalog notes that this data is unverified. Cyclorama shows of this kind used enormous painted canvases, often arranged around a viewing platform, to give audiences the sense of standing inside a battle. The fight they depicted was the June 1876 engagement at the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory, in which George Armstrong Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry were killed. Images of that battle remained popular with the public for decades afterward, and surviving photographs of such displays help show how the event was retold to paying audiences.
| Created / published | 1889 May 27. |
|---|---|
| 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-108915 |
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