General George Armstrong Custer, 1865

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Medium

albumen print (carte-de-visite)

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 8.6 × 5.4 cm (3 3/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
mount: 10.1 × 6.2 cm (4 × 2 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2019.12.6

Artists / Makers

Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries (artist) American, 1860 - 1875

E. & H.T. Anthony (publisher) American, 1862 - 1902

Image Use

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Inscription

by unknown hand, bottom center on mount in black ink: General Custer / "Sheridans Boy"; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in black ink: Taken in Washington / May 1865; center printed in black ink: BRADY'S / NATIONAL / PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT GALLERIES / No. 352 Pennsylvania Avenue, / Washington, D.C., / and / Broadway & Tenth st., New York.

Provenance

Brian Caplan; Thomas Harris, New York, late 1990s; NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Harris, Thomas