Views of General Crook's expedition and the Black Hills
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Description
- Title
- Views of General Crook's expedition and the Black Hills
- Creator
- Morrow, Stanley J.
- Published / Created
- 1876.
- Abstract
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Photographs of the Fifth Cavalry resting in the Black Hills, including views of soldiers in camp, their supply trains, captured Sioux Indians, wounded soldiers, the butchering of horses for meat, and General Crook ordaining Spotted Tail chief of the Sioux at Red Cloud Agency
- Description
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Printed captions pasted on mounts.
27 photographs from a series of 31 that Morrow originally photographed, lacking: #6 Bear Rock, from S., near Custer City; #7 Fifth Cavalry leaving Custer City; #23 Soldiers cutting up abandoned horse; #26 Soldiers fighting over horse meat.
Stanley J. Morrow photographed General Crook's column shortly after the battle of Slim Buttes in the Sioux War of 1876.
Copy prints stored with collection. - Provenance
- Purchased from Andrew Smith Gallery Inc. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1997.
- Extent
- 27 photographic prints : 9.2 x 8 cm. on mounts 10.8 x 8.8 cm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA Photos 225
- Related Resource Online
- View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Pictorial works
Photographic prints
Albumen prints
Portraits - Material
- albumen, b & w ;
- Subject (Geographic)
- Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
- Subject (Name)
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Crook, George, 1828-1890.
United States. Cavalry. 5th Regiment
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cloud Agency
Spotted Tail, 1823-1881 - Subject (Topic)
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Indians of North America
Wars
Dakota Indians - Subjects
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Crook, George, 1828-1890
United States. Cavalry. 5th Regiment > 1855- > Pictorial works
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cloud Agency > Pictorial works
Indians of North America > Wars > 1866-1895 > Pictorial works
Dakota Indians > Pictorial works
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Pictorial works
Spotted Tail, 1823-1881 > Portraits
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4161279
- Object ID (OID)
- 2014630