Image of an outdoor scene showing Native American Indians on horseback shooting rifles in a battle, with a military fort that is on fire and the United States Cavalry charging down a mountains in the background; with a top left vignette of a half-length portrait of United States Army officer and cavalry commander George Custer (captioned "Gen. George A. Custer") in a military uniform with gloves and hat, and a top-right head-and-shoulders portrait of Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull (captioned "Sitting Bull") wearing a headdress; the scene depicts the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn between Plains Indian tribes and the United States Army 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Black Hills of Montana; the poster advertises the film "Custer's Last Fight" released by the Quality Amusement Corporation and based on footage from a 1912 movie produced by Thomas Ince. Probable date based on the year the film was released (Brian Taves, Thomas Ince, page 274). "The / Otis / Lithograph Co. / Cleveland O. / Made in U S A / 3819-M"--text, bottom right of image. "A Thomas H. Ince Special Production"--text, bottom of image, centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 106.05 x 71.28 cm (41 3/4 x 28 1/16 in.)
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876--Portraits Sitting Bull, 1831-1890--Portraits Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 Advertising--Motion pictures Actors--Pictorial works Battles--Pictorial works Forts--Montana--Pictorial works Indians of North America--Pictorial works United States. Army. Cavalry Regiment, 7th--Pictorial works Violence--Pictorial works Quality Amusement Corporation Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc) Motion picture posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Magic and Miscellaneous The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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