The lot features two original circa 1913 Custer Battlefield Battle of the Little Bighorn Rodman Wanamaker Photogravures. Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928) was an American businessman and heir to the Wanamaker's department store fortune. In addition to operating stores in Philadelphia, New York City, and Paris, he was a patron of the arts, education, golf, athletics, a Native American scholarship, and of early aviation. Rodman Wanamaker hired former Baptist preacher and lecturer Joseph Kossuth Dixon as his official photographer and sponsored three expeditions to Native American reservations (1908-1913). The main goal of these expeditions was to document the way of life of Native Americans, whom he saw as a "vanishing race," and to make "first-class citizens" of the Indians as a means of saving them from extinction. In addition to still photography, films were also made during these expeditions including a motion picture film about Hiawatha made on the first expedition (1908), and a reenactment of the Battle of the Little Big Horn made on the second expedition (1909). The third expedition, the "Expedition of Citizenship" (1913), focused on carrying an American flag to tribes across the country and inviting them to sign a declaration of allegiance to the United States. Wanamaker, was a political supporter for Native American citizenship rights in the United States, coordinated and sponsored these trips. Wanamaker was particularly anxious that the "vanishing race's" life and culture would be lost to modernity and relegated to reservations. Wanamaker supported trips to document Indian life and culture through photography, film, and sound recordings in order to advance his cause and raise awareness of the condition of the American Indian. The photographs were made by Dixon and largely depict northern Plains tribes, including Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Crow, and Dakota. The photogravures are titled, "Here Custer Fell" and "Sunset on the Custer Field". "Here Custer Fell" features Crow scouts visiting the Little Bighorn battlefield, circa 1913. From left to right are White Man Runs Him, Hairy Moccasin, Curly and Goes Ahead. In 1909, decades after the battle, White Man Runs Him told photographer Dixon how he and Hairy Moccasin had averted Custer's death earlier in the fight by keeping up a brisk fire at the counter-charging Cheyennes. Ashishishe known as Curly (or Curley) and Bull Half White, was a Crow scout in the United States Army during the Sioux Wars, best known for having been the last member of Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer's battalion to depart Custer's detachment before its annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He did not participate in Custer's final fight, but may have watched from a distance, and was the first to report the defeat of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. "Sunset on the Custer Field" features a sunset view of the large marble obelisk monument erected in 1881 to honour the fallen troopers of the 7th Cavalry who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. In 1890, marble blocks were added to mark the places where the U.S. cavalry soldiers fell. The two photogravures are in very good preserved condition, age tanning noted. Professionally mounted in matted gold gilt wood frames, frames have slight scuffing observed. Frames measure 14.25"W x 18"L x 1.25"D. Combined weight is 4lb, 10oz.