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Tombstone Western Heritage Museum Auction: The Earp Brothers & Cowboys

Sat, Jul 26, 2025 11:00AM EDT
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Join North American Auction Company on July 26th for a once-in-a-lifetime auction of the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum Collection. This extraordinary sale features the largest private collection of Tombstone history, including rare and historic pieces tied to Wyatt Earp, the Earp Brothers, and the infamous Cochise Cowboys. From original artifacts, outlaw relics, and the largest collection of C.S. Fly photographs, this is a can’t-miss event for collectors of the Old West’s most legendary chapter.
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Lot 281

Buehman & Hartwell Cabinet Card Yaqui Girl 1875-89

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Starting Bid
$250

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Offered in this lot is an Original Buehman & Hartwell Cabinet Card Photograph, circa 1875-1889. The cabinet card photograph appears to be of a young Yaqui girl in a feathered dress, with a feathered headdress. She's holding a bow in her left hand while also holding arrows in her right hand. She's standing in front of a studio landscape backdrop. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. Henry Buehman established his own photography studio in Tucson, Arizona Territory in 1875. Around 1881 he hired Frank Hartwell as an apprentice. Although Buehman was predominantly a studio photographer, he was also a prolific photographer of early Arizona scenes, producing various image series, such "Arizona Scenes", "Scenes in Arizona", "Views in Arizona", "Arizona Scenery" and the like. His most sensitive and beautiful images are his portraits of Native Americans in Arzona Territory. He also did commercial work for local businesses; documented accidents and crimes in Tucson; and traveled to mining camps, Mexico and Indian Reservations, photographing the landscape and its inhabitants. Henry Buehman was a contemporary and competitor of famed photographer C.S. Fly of Tombstone, he was in actually in business far longer than Fly and his Tombstone photos predated those of Fly. Like Fly, Buehman did much to advance photography as a profession in the West. The gold gilt edged cabinet card photograph displays studio logo along the bottom border, "Buehman & Hartwell, TUCSON, A. T.", reverse has museum code handwritten in pencil on right top corner, "IN36". Cabinet card is in nicely preserved condition, foxing observed on reverse. Measures 4.25"W x 6.5"L, weight is U6.

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