A young Elizabeth "Libbie" Custer CDV

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Title: Elizabeth "Libbie" Custer - carte-de-visite photograph
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Albumen photograph CDV. 10.3x6 cm (4x2¼"); in Optium Museum Acrylic glass frame: 15.1x11 cm (6x3½").

Elizabeth Clift Custer was an American author and public speaker, and the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer. Fearing that her husband was to be made a scapegoat by history, Libbie launched a one-woman campaign to rehabilitate her husband's image. Her assistance to the author of the first Custer biography, Frederick Whittaker, helped enable the rapid production of the popular book, which praised Custer's career and set the tone for future biographers in the decades ahead.
Condition Report: Top corners of carte with minuscule chips, light wear with a few spots, light creasing and faint ripple.