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Gen. George Armstrong Custer, 1839-1876, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing buckskin cloth and holding rifle – Antique Photo Print

Gen. George Armstrong Custer, 1839-1876, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing buckskin cloth and holding rifle — historic photograph
Gen. George Armstrong Custer, 1839-1876, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing buckskin cloth and holding rifle. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: Gen. George Armstrong Custer, 1839-1876, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing buckskin cloth and holding rifle, 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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Gen. George Armstrong Custer, 1839-1876, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing buckskin cloth and holding rifle

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Custer appears here in buckskin, the fringed frontier clothing he favored during his campaigns on the Great Plains, with a rifle held at his side. The photograph dates to 1872, a few years before his death at the Little Bigorn in June 1876, and it presents him as a figure of the western frontier rather than as a uniformed Civil War general. Portraits like this helped shape the public image of Custer as a dashing Indian fighter, an image that was popular in print during his lifetime and remains contested by historians today.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1872
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,071 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136310

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