Custer's Last Charge
date: label: Date made
content: 1876
name: label: copyright holder
content: Siefert Gugler & Co.
label: depicted
content: Custer, George Armstrong
label: maker
content: Milwaukee Lithographic & Engraving Company
label: designer
content: Fuchs, Feodor
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Colored print; combat scene between George Custer's military forces and Indian warriors. Custer is in center foreground on horseback, brandishing a sword at a plumed warrior who holds a tomahawk. Most Indians are armed with rifles. Heavy casualties are depicted on both sides. Foothills appear in the background.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This is one of the earliest images of the battle and the first lithograph of the event.. Historically inaccurate, it depicts a long haired Custer with his saber, which he did not have with him in the battle. He is not using not a pistol or rifle which he did carry into the battle. The image is full of grand gestures and depictions of glorious death on both sides and unfortuneately added to the Custer mystique and heroic image.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
label: depicted
content: United States: Montana, Little Bighorn
topic: label: Subject
content: Costume
label: depicted
content: Uniforms, Military
label: depicted
content: Indians
label: depicted
content: Native Americans
label: Subject
content: Battle Scenes
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1870-1879
label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Horseback Riding
label: Subject
content: Settlement
label: Subject
content: West
label: depicted
content: Firearms
label: related event
content: Battle of the Little Bighorn
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2599
label: catalog number
content: 60.2599
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chromolithograph
label: Object Type
content: Chromolithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 21 in x 26 1/2 in; 53.34 cm x 67.31 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 29 in; 60.96 cm x 73.66 cm