Custer's monument on Crow Agency, Montana, along B. & M. R.R. – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Custer's monument on Crow Agency, Montana, along B. & M. R.R.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Custer's monument on Crow Agency, Montana, along B. & M. R.R.
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Set beside a railroad line on the Crow reservation, this marble monument honors George Armstrong Custer, the Seventh Cavalry commander killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. Its location at Crow Agency is the notable detail, since the Crow people had served as scouts for the army and had their own accounts of the battle and its aftermath. The photograph, made around 1894 by H.R. Locke, records a memorial placed in the landscape of a Native nation during a period when the Crow were confined to a reservation and the history of the 1876 fight was being told and retold, often by people outside the Crow community.
| Created / published | c1894. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by H.R. Locke. No. 3. |
| Subjects | Custer, George Armstrong,--1839-1876--Monuments--Montana--Crow Agency. Monuments & memorials--Montana--Crow Agency--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,156 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163536 |
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