Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CUSTER'S LAST SITTING (CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG.) [Howell, William R.; photographer.] Cabinet card of Custer from his last known portrait sitting. Albumen photograph, 6 x 4 inches, on original plain mount; image slightly scuffed and chipped, early pencil identification on verso. [New York, circa 23 April 1876]
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This was Custer's final 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-154.