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Lot 360
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
10:00AM ET
Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[WOUNDED KNEE]. Four photographs taken in the immediate aftermath of Wounded Knee, incl. Lt. Sydney Cloman on the battlefield surrounded by dead Lakota members of Big Foot’s Band. January 1891.
4 photographs, approx. 5 7/8 x 8 in. or smaller. One on cardstock mount credited on recto to Trager & Kuhn, Chadron, Nebraska, and three credited in the negative or on verso to the Northwestern Photographic Company, Chadron, Nebraska, which acquired the negatives from George Trager.
Includes the following scenes: View of a mounted Lieutenant Sydney A. Cloman, 1st US Infantry, posing amongst the bodies that are scattered across the snow-covered battlefield. Lower margin of mount inscribed in period hand, "Lt. Cloman - Horse standing where first shot was fired." -- "Bird's Eye View of Battlefield at Wounded Knee, S.D., looking North." -- "Gathering up the Dead at the Battle of Wounded Knee, S.D." -- "Burial of the Dead at the Battle of Wounded Knee, S.D.," copyrighted in the negative 1 January 1891.
Together, 4 photographs produced from the graphic negatives made by George Trager on or near New Year's Day 1891, just five days after the Wounded Knee Massacre.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Cincinnati.