Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG.) Mora, José M.; photographer. Cabinet photograph of Custer three months before his last stand. Albumen photograph, 5 3/4 x 4 inches, on original mount, with photographer's mark on mount recto; faint spotting, mount remnants on verso. New York, [March 1876]

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This was Custer's penultimate session with a photographer. He left the east coast on 3 May, and died at Little Bighorn on 25 June. Katz, Custer in Photographs K-150.