American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

Portfolio I: Chiefs of the Sioux Wars and the Battle of Little Big-Horn. Plates 1-15. -- Portfolio II: Custer, Prominent Military Structures, and the Men Who Fought the Sioux Wars. Plates 16-30. -- Portfolio III: Plains Warriors, Chiefs, Scouts, and Frontier Personalities. Plates 31-45.

45 photographs, contact printed using the original glass plate negatives from the David Francis Barry Negative Collection at the Denver Public Library. A complete listing of plates is available upon request. Original red cloth clamshell portfolios with gilt lettering.

LIMITED EDITION, number 83 of 150 copies. 45 plates, reproduced from the original glass plate negatives in the David Francis Barry negative Collection acquired by the Denver Public Library in 1934. Included are aesthetically significant and images of historical importance selected by Denver photographer Paul Harbaugh and curator August Mastrogiuseppi. Each is matted with an identifying label to the mat verso. Images include portraits of prominent Native Americans including Sitting Bull, Red Horse, Rain-in-the-Face; images related to Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn including a portrait of Custer, his officers, and their wives and the Custer Battlefield Monument; as well as famous portraits of Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull with Buffalo Bill Cody.