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Title: Last of the buffalo
Creator: Bierstadt, Albert (1830-1902), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: c1891
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: Wild-eyed bison charging Indian on horseback as he plunges spear into animal. Dead and dying bison and skulls surround main scene; extensive herds in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Abierstadt. Handwritten (LR): Miss Adelia Stewart Bennet/compliments of Albert Beirstadt (signature). Printed (UR): Copyright 1891 Albert Beirstadt. Photomechanical print with enhanced lines; made after original painting by Albert Beirstadt.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: photomechanical 49.6 x 75.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf109nb396
BANC PIC 1963.002:0768--FR
Subject: Animals
Bison
Horses
Hunting
Indians of North America

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