Lot 257

Photograph of Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Church 1890s

Estimate: $750 - $1,500

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Presented in this lot is a Antique Photograph of Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Church, circa 1882-1884. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. The Reverend Endicott Peabody founded St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Tombstone in 1882, three months after the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral. Peabody's outgoing manner won admirers among the locals, including Wyatt Earp, whose whose family donated the altar rail for the new church. Peabody left Tombstone after St. Paul's opened, returning back to Massachusetts. Peabody founded the Groton School in 1884 and later Brooks School, both schools becoming elite private boarding schools. St. Paul's is the oldest Protestant church in Arizona and the early parishioners came from every strata of society: businessmen, mine owners, housewives, soiled doves, hard-rock miners and rowdy gunslingers. And lawmen like Wyatt Earp. Reverend Peabody befriended Wyatt and sent Wyatt this photograph after Wyatt left Tombstone in the Spring of 1882. Peabody left Tombstone one month after St. Paul's opened. Today, the church continues to use the altar rail donated through Wyatt Earp's family. Attached Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label on clear protective plastic sleeve reads, EPISCOPAL CHURCH Photo given to WYATT EARP By Rev. Peabody, a pastor there in 1880's", museum code, "P-122". Reverse of photo has handwritten in ink, "Episcopal Church - Tombstone 1890s". Also on reverse is an illustrated backmark for Howland and Chadwick Photographic Supplies Kodak Headquarters Retail Store, 211 S. Broadway Wholesale Store, 211 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, California. Frederick T. Howland and Redmond A. Chadwick operated a stock photo company on S. Main St. in Los Angeles from 1890-1899. The photo and geometric designed mounting board are in good overall condition, slight scuffing noted. Photo measures 5"W x 5"L approximately, sleeve is 5.875"W x 6.5"L, weight is U6.

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