This is an original large, albumen photograph titled, “Burial of the Dead at the Battle of Wounded Knee S.D. Copyrighted Jan 1st 1891 by the Northwestern Photo Co. Chadron, Neb. No. 1”. This original photograph represents the mass grave of the Wounded Knee Massacre taken January 1891 by George Trager of The Northwestern Photographic Company Chadron, Nebraska. The image shows the dug mass Lakota Sioux burial with the U.S. 7th Cavalry Soldiers (commanded by Col. James W. Forsyth) standing in and around the grave. George Trager, of nearby Chadron, NE, was the first photographer on the scene after the Wounded Knee debacle, and took a number of photographs in January 1891 as US troops began collecting and burying bodies left on the field. An iconic image from the series of plates he exposed. The Wounded Knee Massacre, also referred to as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was the massacre of nearly 300 Lakota Indians by the 7th Cavalry Soldiers of the Untied States Army and was part of what the U.S. military called the Pine Ridge Campaign. The event occurred on December 29th, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The back is originally marked, “Northwestern Photographic Company, Chadron, Nebraska. Headquarters for all kinds of Indian and Late War Views of Pine Ridge Agency, So. Dak. All Views Copyrighted”. Also is hand written on the card, “Personal Property of Chas C. Lrensbert (?) Hinton, Okla / Pleas. Return”. Provenance: From the Jim Aplan Piedmont, South Dakota collection. The large boudoir card measures 8.5” by 6.5”. The boudoir card shows some discoloration small imperfection at top left, image faded, but still legible and able to see the historic scene. U6.*