1870s Gallery

Mormons cutting stone for their temple, Utah

Quarrying stone for the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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US Army survivors of Custers Last Stand - horse and scout, Curley

Horse "Comanche" and Custer's scout Curley, the only US Army survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a photograph

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George A. Custer

General Custer in his buckskin suit, worn with a sombrero added during his last battle, 1876.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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