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Lot 299
Sale 6425 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
Part I - Lots 1-222
Oct 23, 2025
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Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
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Live / Cincinnati
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[CUSTER, George A. (1839-1876)]. [POWERS, D. E., photog.]. Last known photograph of Custer and Spotted Tail at the Grand Duke's Mess Tent. Omaha, NE: E.L. Eaton, 1872.
Stereoview on cardstock mount, verso with printed title, "No. 6. Gen. Custar [sic] and Spotted Tail at the Grand Duke's Mess Tent," and credit to E.L. Eaton, Photographer, Omaha, Nebraska, and D.B. Powers, Operator. A view capturing Lieutenant Colonel Custer and Spotted Tail together in front of a tent, January 1872.
UNIQUE: The last documented photograph of Custer, and the only example of the stereoview known to exist. This stereoview is illustrated in D. Mark Katz's Custer in Photographs (1990), and is catalogued as an "unpublished stereoview, courtesy of William M. Lentz, Jr. (K-158)." With small inventory sticker affixed near top left corner of mount.
Provenance: William M. Lentz, Jr. Collection; Swann, Photographs, 19 April 1997, Lot 93.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Cincinnati.