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Title: Capture & Death of Sitting Bull
Creator: Kurz & Allison, printer
Kurz & Allison, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of the attempted capture of Sitting Bull and the ensuing fight between police and Native American Sioux Indians in 1890; Sioux warriors and Indian Police on horseback face off with rifles; dead and dying men and horses on the ground; tipis at left and additional police forces with cannons at left in background.
"Copyrighted 1890 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, 76 & 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, U.S.A."--text, bottom right margin. "Dec. 15' 1890. Ind. Police Kd. Little Eagle, Afraid of Soldiers, Hawk Man, Broken Arm. Wd. Bull Head, Shave Head, Alex. Middle. Hostiles Kd. Sitting Bull, Crow-foot S. B. Son, Brave Thunder & Son, Catch-the-Bear, Black Bear, Assinaboine & Spotted Horn Bull."--text, bottom left margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed hand colored ; overall 52.07 x 70.8 cm (20 1/2 x 27 7/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MIL_003329
443035
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4182
Language: English
Subject: Horses--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Police--Pictorial works
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Military
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Other Military
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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