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Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1839 - 1876

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

[Drawings for The Old Santa Fe Trail]

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer-Art-Inman/Willing
Abstract Nineteen pen and ink drawings on board of varying sizes, largely unsigned with the exception of one drawing signed "C. F. Tiedemann 93," and another initialed "CFT." Fourteen of the drawings can be found as tail pieces and initials within Henry Inman's The Old Santa Fe Trail (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897), a work that charts the illustrious history of the Santa Fe Trail, a nineteenth century transportation route that connected...
Dates: approximately 1890-1897

[Sioux Indian Drawings]

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer-Art-Sioux.Indian
Abstract One hundred sixty unsigned, numbered drawings attributed to "Sioux Indians" (a general, blanket term used to describe the Santee, the Yankton-Yanktonai, and the Lakota peoples) living in Fort Yates, North Dakota during the cataclysmic winter of 1913-1914, a period known as the "Starving Time." Aaron McGaffey Bead, an Episcopal missionary to the Indians of North Dakota, provided paper and art supplies to the residents of Fort Yates during this period and paid 50-75 cents for each drawing,...
Dates: 1913-1914

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Children's drawings 1
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Drawings (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
Fort Yates (N.D.) 1
Frontier and pioneer life in art 1