FROM DIRECT DESCENT OF CUSTER FAMILY. Rare cabinet card photograph, 6-1/2" x 4-1/4", Katz in his text "Custer in Photographs" page 96 (K-112) "Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, on or about January 24, 1872, by James A. Scholten. From the unique, original unpublished cabinet card, courtesy of Custer Battlefield National Monument". Scholten was St. Louis photographer where Custer visited with Russian Duke Alexis after this Black Hills expedition. There are few photos from this sitting other than few Custer gave as gifts to family. One variant view signed for his sister from the Dr. Lawrence Frost collection, which of course descended in same family grouping. CONDITION: very good overall, some toning. PROVENANCE: Direct descent from descendants of James Calhoun Custer; Martin Lane Historic & Western Americana Lifetime Collection. (02-21442-1/JS). $1,000-2,000.