Lot 205

Rare C. S. Fly Boudoir Card of Tombstone, 1882

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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Featured in this lot is a Rare C. S. Fly Boudoir Card of Tombstone, Arizona Territory 1882. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. The boudoir card shows Tombstone looking down from a hillside mine. Camillus "Buck" Sydney Fly (CS Fly, C. S. Fly, C S Fly, Buck Fly) was an Old West photographer and lawman 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. His photographs are legendary and highly prized. Based in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, C.S. Fly documented the peace treaty between Apache Chief Geronimo and the U.S. Army in 1886, as well as other iconic moments of the Old West. Fly gained access to some of the most iconic names of the 19th century: Apache Chief Geronimo and the bandits behind the shootout at the O.K. Corral. Without his studio in the notorious boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, we would be sorely lacking some dimension to our ideas of the frontier. While Fly didn't get any photographs of the actual gunfight which only lasted approximately 30 seconds, he did manage to capture both the outlaws and the lawmen on film before and after the bloodshed. Fly also served as Cochise County Sheriff from 1895 to 1897. Fly's images are very collectible and command premium prices today. Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, founded in 1879 by prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It became one of the last boomtowns in the American Old West frontier. It is best known as the site of the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral. A Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label on the face of the clear protective plastic sleeve reads, "TOMBSTONE 1882 C. S. FLY photo", museum code, "P-25". Handwritten in ink on the reverse is, "Tomstone Arizona Territory". The boudoir card exhibits age tanning, foxing and scuffing on edges. Measures 5.25"W x 8.5"L, sleeve is 6.375"W x 9.25"L. Weight is U6.

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