Feb 11, 2010 - Sale 2202

Sale 2202 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 24,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
CUSTER'S OWN PORTRAIT OF OFFICERS OF THE SEVENTH CAVALRY CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG; AND HIS MEN. Photograph Inscribed and Signed, "G.A.C." twice, in ink and pencil, an albumen print, group portrait [by Orlando S. Goff], showing Custer and the officers under his command, including their wives. On the mount below the image, Custer has written, in ink, the name of each person in the group, adding, in pencil, "Names written in the order of the persons in the picture. G.A.C." On the verso, in pencil, he notes "Our house at Fort Lincoln, Dakota." Approximately 5x7 1/4 inches (image), 8x10 inches overall; minor toning at edges of mount, scattered minor foxing on verso. [Fort Lincoln, ND, November 1873]
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Depicted in the photograph are the following, from the left: 2nd Lieutenant Nelson Bronson ("Lt Bronson"), 2nd Lieutenant George D. Wallace ("Lt Wallace"), Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer ("G.A.C."), 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Hodgson ("Lt Hodgson"), Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer ("Libbie"), Mrs. Thomas McDougall and 1st Lieutenant Thomas M. McDougall ("Capt & Mrs. McDougall"), Dr. J.V.T. Middleton, Mrs. Annie Yates ("Mrs. Yates"), Captain George W. Yates ("Captain Yates"), Charles W. Thompson ("Charlie Thompson"), Mrs. Margaret Custer Calhoun ("Maggie"), Miss Agnes Bates ("Agnes"), Captain John S. Poland ("Col Poland"), 2nd Lieutenant Charles Varnum ("Lt Varnum"), Lieutenant Colonel William P. Carlin ("Gen Carlin"), Mrs. Myles Moylan ("Mrs. Moylan"), Lieutenant Thomas W. Custer ("Tom"), Captain William Thompson ("Col Thompson"), Lieutenant James Calhoun ("Lt Calhoun"), Mrs. Donald McIntosh ("Mrs. McIntosh"), 1st Lieutenant Myles Moylan ("Captain Moylan"), 2nd Lieutenant Donald McIntosh ("Lt McIntosh").
Katz, Custer in Photographs, K-122.