Image / Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota December 26, 1862

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Title: Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota December 26, 1862
Creator: Hayes Lithographing Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1883
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of the execution of 38 Sioux Native American Indians as part of the Dakota War of 1862 (also known as the Sioux Uprising); ranks of United States soldiers on foot and on horseback surround a large square gallows platform with the Sioux to be executed standing with nooses around their necks and their arms bound; empty horse-drawn wagons labeled "U.S." stand at the ready at left; civilian onlookers crowd behind the soldiers' ranks to watch the hanging; town buildings of Mankato, Minnesota, visible in background.
"Hayes Litho. Co. Buffalo N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1883, by John C. Wise in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 42.55 x 53.66 cm (16 3/4 x 21 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MIL_001271
491282
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4133
Language: English
Subject: Dakota Indians--Pictorial works
Executions--Pictorial works
Hanging--Pictorial works
Soldiers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Place: Mankato (Minn.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Military
Large Size
Other Military
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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