Presented in this lot is a Wyatt Earp Museum Photograph circa 1881. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona, museum rendition. Wyatt Earp was a legendary America Old West gunslinger, gambler, and lawman in Dodge City, Kansas, Deadwood in Dakota Territory and Tombstone in Arizona Territory. Earp was involved in the gunfight at the O. K. Corral, during which lawmen, which included his brothers Morgan and Virgil as well as Doc Holliday, killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys on October 26, 1881. After leaving Tombstone, Wyatt went to San Francisco to spend time with his convalescing brother Virgil, his wounds received during the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral in Tombstone. After leaving Tombstone in 1882, Wyatt and Josephine Earp eventually settled in the Los Angeles area from 1911 until his death in 1929. Earp's time in Los Angeles was split between summers in Los Angeles and the rest of the years at their "Happy Days" gold mining camp near Vidal, California. Even in his later years, Earp retained a notable presence, consulting on Western films and maintaining connections with celebrities like novelist Jack London, directors John Ford and Raoul Walsh, and actors Charlie Chaplin, William S. Hart and Tom Mix, who was a pallbearer at his funeral. The Tombstone Western Heritage Museum presented an ever-expanding collection of 12,000-plus objects related to Tombstone and the broader Old West. At the heart of the museum were original papers, photos, firearms, furniture, clothing, conveyances and other artifacts relating the history of the town and its citizens. A central display case was devoted to Earp family photos and keepsakes, including snapshots of brothers Virgil and Wyatt and a C.S. Fly–stamped photograph of Josephine Earp at age 18. One shelf held a locket of Josie’s, with facing photos of her and husband Wyatt. Above it a personal letter from Josephine, the canceled envelope addressed in Wyatt’s hand. Adjacent display cases held official and personal papers, possessions and photos (many by Fly) of such Tombstone icons as prospector and town founder Ed Schieffelin, first Mayor John Clum, gunsmith S.L. Hart, the aforementioned Earps and their McLaury and Clanton nemeses. Here, too, were mementos of the nameless everymen and women— miners and cowboys, actors, gamblers, saloon girls and prostitutes—who lived and died within blocks of this corner. The attached Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label on the matting border face, "WYATT EARP Ca. 1881 More than likely taken in Tombstone". Photograph exhibits scratches, matting exhibits scratches and soiling. Visible image measures 7.5"W x 9.25"L, matting is 12.125"W x 14.125"L, combined weight is U6.