Title:
Custer's last fight [Budweiser Brewing Company advertisement]
Creator/Contributor:
Becker, Otto (active 1890-1896), artist (based on original by) (artist)
Date:
c1896
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1451--F
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: photomechanical, color
80.4 x 107.7 cm.
Content/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.
Notes/Inscriptions:
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.
Subjects:
Arms & armaments;
Clothing & dress;
Events;
Indians of North America;
Military personnel;
Montana
Genre/Format:
Photomechanical prints