Lieutenants Welsh and Backus at Fort Buford in 1883
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content: OPPS NEG.PORT 80 D
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content: Black and white copy negative
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content: Backus, George Benjamin ?, Lieut
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
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content: Note the type of uniform worn by these early soldiers of the west. (W. J. West photo, Fort Buford, Dakota Territory). Lt. Backus is possibly George Benjamin Backus (died June 14, 1895), listed in F. B. Heitman, Historical Register..., Washington, D. C., 1903, Volume 1, page 179.
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content: 1 Photograph (5x8 in)
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Photographs
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content: Digital surrogate produced from reference copy print
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content: Photographs