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Lot 74

[CUSTER] Libbie Inscribed 1864 War-Time George + Libbie Custer Portrait

Estimate: $750 - $1,500
Current Bid
$150

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Full-length albumen CDV portrait of Libbie and George Armstrong Custer in uniform as Brigadier General. Washington, D.C.: Mathew Brady, [22 October 1864]. Brady imprints to recto and verso. Ink inscription by Libbie Custer to verso alongside modern ink identification.  Katz K-40. 

 

DATED INSCRIPTION BY LIBBIE CUSTER TO VERSO: "Yours Sincerely / Libbie Bacon Custer. / March 1864. / Army of the Potomac." 

 

A fine war-time Brady portrait of Custer and his wife Libbie, who had wed earlier in 1864, enhanced by a contemporary inscription by her. 

 

[Late Indian Wars, Great Sioux War, George Armstrong Custer, Battle of Little Bighorn, Lakota, Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse][Civil War, Union, Confederate][Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards]

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