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Title: Custer's last fight [Budweiser Brewing Company advertisement]
Creator: Becker, Otto (active 1890-1896), artist (based on original by)
Date Created and/or Issued: c1896
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: View of General George Armstrong Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn, Montana, 1876 showing battle scene between US soldiers and Native American Indians. General Custer, wearing buckskin, fights in center of melee. Armed fighters carry rifles, spears, maces, shields, tomahawks, and other arms.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Entered... 1896 by Adolphus Busch... ; (LC, below title): The original painting has been presented to the Seventh Regiment US Calvary/by Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Missouri, USA/world's largest brewery/home of Budweiser and/other Anheuser-Busch fine beers. Printed legend.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: photomechanical, color 80.4 x 107.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0x0nb3kx
BANC PIC 1963.002:1451--F
Subject: Arms & armaments
Clothing & dress
Events
Indians of North America
Military personnel
Montana

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