Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of American soldiers gathering up dead Sioux Indians after the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota, 1890. Three soldiers are standing in the foreground by a donkey-drawn wagon full of the stiff bodies of dead Indians. There are four donkeys hitched to the wagon at right, and the Indians are visible over the wooden sides of the vehicle. A group of seven mounted cavalrymen is standing on the snowy hill above the wagon, and another wagon with a team of four donkeys is in the background at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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