Featured in this lot is a Rare C. S. Fly Boudoir Card of the Sonora, Mexico Earthquake, 1887. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. The boudoir card photograph shows a rupture in the earth caused by the massive earthquake. The land dropped twenty feet in this area. The 1887 Sonora earthquake occurred on 3 May in the Teras mountain range of northwestern Mexico with an estimated magnitude of 7.6 and caused 42 casualties in the town of Bavispe. It was the only historical earthquake to cause considerable damage in Arizona. Dr. George E. Goodfellow in Tombstone, Arizona Territory rode 140 kilometers (87 mi) with medical supplies to aid survivors. Goodfellow went with Tombstone photographer Camillus Sidney Fly to study and record the effects of the earthquake. He covered over 700 miles (1,100 km) on horseback but mostly on foot through the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains recording his observations. His report included the first surface rupture map of an earthquake in North America and photographs of the rupture scarp by C.S. Fly. The earthquake was at the time the "longest recorded normal-fault surface rupture in historic time". His report was later described as an "outstanding study" and a "pioneering achievement". 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. A Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label on the face of the clear protective plastic sleeve reads, "C. S. FLY PHOTO Bavispa, Mexico - on back, "_ of results of the Earthquake. The shake caused the earth surface to sink 20 ft. leaving a bank 20 feet high as shown. May 3, 1887 Sonora Mexico", museum code, "P-159". Reverse has the same content handwritten in pencil. Fly's studio stamp in purple ink is on reverse, "FLY'S GALLERY, TOMBSTONE, A. T." The boudoir card exhibits age tanning, foxing and scuffing on edges. 5.25"W 8.5"L, sleeve is 6.375"W x 9.25"L. Weight is U6.