ATTIRE BY D.F. BARRY. This photograph measures approx. 8” by 5 3/4" and depicts Custer in a semi-seated, right-facing pose, wearing buckskins, boots, scarf, and a folding hat. Custer holds a half stock rifle in his left hand with the butt resting on the ground. The photo is signed in white to the left of Custer “Barry Photo”. It is also impressed below the image of Custer “COPYRIGHT BY D.F. BARRY”. The photo is in a brown matte that measures 10 1/2" x 7 1/4" and is impressed “BARRY”. The matte is held in a cardboard folder that measures 10 3/4" x 7 1/2". The folder has a 3” x 2” label that reads “D.F. BARRY PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL NOTED INDIAN CHIEFS PHOTOGRAPHER 1312 TOWER AVE. SUPERIOR. WISCONSIN”. David Francis Barry began his photographic career in Wisconsin as an assistant to itinerant photographer Orlando Scott Goff. In 1871, Goff moved to the Dakota territory and opened his first photographic studio. In 1878, Goff asked his former assistant, D.F. Barry, to join him at the new Bismark gallery. Barry soon became Goff’s business partner and traveled throughout the plains, taking photographs as he went. Barry is most famous for this photo of Custer and for his work with the Lakota people. Barry returned to Wisconsin in 1890, where he ran a successful photographic gallery until his death. CONDITION: photograph remains quite crisp, with very minor fading on the left side. The matte and folder have a bit of water damage but remains solid. (02-21100/BF). $800-1,200.