Featured in this lot is a Little Bighorn Battlefield Photograph 1949. This photograph was taken the year after the last reunion of eight Lakota survivors of the famous battle also known as "Custer's Last Stand". The photograph shows white marble grave markers inside the fence of the monument which sits on Last Stand Hill within Little Bighorn National Cemetery. Provenance: From the John Kleinschmidt collection which was on loan to the C.M. Russell Museum from 1987 to 1993 and included in the "The Cowboy West: 100 Years of Photography 1992-1993 exhibit. An attached museum tag reads, "1396-87 O'Dell". The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota Sioux and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The photograph is marked on reverse, "Custer's Battlefield Taken July 8, 1949. The photograph is in amazing preserved condition, mounted in a silver gilt coloured wood frame and sits behind glass to protect its already preserved condition, scuffing noted to frame. The visible art measures 7.5"W x 9.375"L, frame is 8.5" W x 10.5" L x .625" D. Weight is 14oz.