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C.S. Fly Tombstone, Hafford Saloon Cabinet Card

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
C.S. Fly Tombstone, Hafford Saloon Cabinet Card
Featured in this lot is this Tombstone, Hafford Saloon C.S. Cabinet Card; Provenance: From the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum in Tombstone, Arizona. The cabinet card features a wonderfully and professionally crafted construction that shows a display of animals that crawled into the Hafford Saloon in Tombstone by C.S. Fly who is a renown photographer who frequently is associated with events surrounding the 1880's trouble at the O.K. Corral. Camillus "Buck" Sydney Fly (May 2, 1849 – October 12, 1901) was an Old West photographer who is regarded by some as an early photojournalist and who captured the only known images of Native Americans while they were still at war with the United States. He took many other pictures of life in the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, and the surrounding region. He recognized the value of his photographs to illustrate periodicals of the day and took his camera to the scenes of important events where he recorded them and resold pictures to editors nationwide. The condition of this C.S. Fly cabinet card is well preserved with some browning to the cabinet card consistent with the age but otherwise shows a well preserved condition. The measurements of this cabinet card is 8" x 5". P28