PHOTOGRAPH OF SGT. FREDERICK WILLIAMS, KILLED BY THE SIOUX IN 1867

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Silver gelatin image, an 4 x 6" oval vignette, mounted on larger 10 x 12" board, with blindstamp of BARRY in both the photograph and on the mount. With penciled inscription on verso, presumably in D.F. Barry's hand White Man Killed by the Sioux - the 2 cuts on the legs show the Sioux mark - From the way he's cut on the legs -- shows he was killed by a Sioux Indian -. This shocking image shows the mutilated body of Sgt. Fredrick Williams of the 7th Cavalry, killed by Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe near Fort Wallace, Kansas on June 26, 1867.

Provenance: The Mike Butler Collection of Western Photography.