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Troop A, Ninth U.S. Cavalry -- Famous Indian Fighters

1898

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A stereograph produced by Underwood & Underwood, dated 1898, of an outdoor scene titled: "Troop A, Ninth U.S. Cavalry -- Famous Indian Fighters/ Copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman", below the image. The stereograph is rectangular in shape with two identical albumen photographs that are square-shaped with a curved top edge attached to a piece of cardboard. Both images feature Troop A of the Ninth U.S. Cavalry in an open field posed on horse back in a military formation. The left edge of the stereograph contains the following textual information: "Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers/ New York, NY"" while the right side contains the following textual information: "Sold only by Underwood & Underwood/ New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas".

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Catalog reference: 2011.155.175

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