Bill Groethe photographs of surviviors of the Battle of Little Big Horn
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 92-14
name: label: Creator
content: Groethe, Bill, 1923-
label: Names
content: Beard, Dewey
label: Names
content: Black Elk, 1863-1950
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux
place: label: Place
content: Custer State Park (S.D.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
creator: label: Creator
content: Groethe, Bill, 1923-
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: William M. Groethe (b. 1923) is a professional photographer from Rapid City, South Dakota, known for his photographs of Mount Rushmore and his portrait of the last survivors of the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn. Mentored by fellow Rapid City photographers Carl Rise and Bert Bell, Groethe was the only professional photographer in attendance at the reunion of the Battle of the Little Big Horn survivors. Both Rapid City and the State of South Dakota declared September 2, 2009 as William M. Groethe Day in honor of the 61st anniversary of the Little Bighorn photo.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Gelatin silver prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Bill Groethe through Art Madill, 1992.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.92-14
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gelatin silver prints
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Mary Duffy, "Bill Groethe: Master photographer of Mount Rushmore," South Dakota Magazine, May/June 1991.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Bill Groethe depicting a reunion of survivors of the Battle of Little Big Horn at Custer State Park, South Dakota, on September 2, 1948. The survivors depicted include Little Warrior, Pemmican, Little Soldier, Dewey Beard, High Eagle, Iron Hawk, Comes Again, and Nicholas Black Elk. John Sitting Bull, though not a survivor himself, was present to represent Sitting Bull, his adoptive father.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Groethe's photograph, entitled "Lakota Moon of the Longest Night," held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 2002-02.