Lot 145

Wyatt & Josephine Earp Cabinet Card, N. H. Rose

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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Featured in this lot is an Extremely Rare Original Noah H. Rose Collection Wyatt & Josephine Earp Cabinet Card, circa 1902. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. This is a rare cabinet card photograph of the famous Old West Tombstone lawman and his common-law wife. Josephine met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory and was his life companion for 46 years until his death. Noah Hamilton Rose (1874-1952) was a painter and photographer. He developed an impressive collection of photographs of the American Old West that included images of many notable individuals from the era. He printed a mail-order catalog of the negatives he had collected and developed a successful mail-order business selling photographs to magazines and collectors. He added to his collection when he purchased the rights to photographs owned by A. A. Brack who owned Brack's Studio in San Antonio. He eventually collected over 2,000 images. He partnered with his childhood friend John Marvin Hunter and published Album of Gunfighters in 1951. His photograph collection is now held by the University of Oklahoma. A number of his photographs are also on display in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas. In the photograph, Wyatt is driving Josephine in a horse-drawn buckboard carriage past a picket fenced building. Both are dressed up as if heading to a formal event. During this time, Wyatt and Josephine lived in Tonopah, Nevada, known as the "Queen of the Silver Camps", where silver and gold had been discovered in 1900. A Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label on the face of the clear protective plastic sleeve, "WYATT & JOSEPHINE Photo dated 1902 Originally in the famous N. H. Rose collection - then to John Parke", museum code, "E-59". Label at the top of the protective sleeve, "NEWLY DISCOVERED PHOTO OF WYATT & JOSEPHINE!!". On the reverse is the Rose Collection hallmark stamp, "Famous Rose Collection of old time PHOTOGRAPHS N. H. Rose Photographer P. O. Box 463, San Antonio, Texas". This extremely rare photograph is in amazingly preserved condition, age tanning and cracks for age and use noted. Card measures 4.25"W x 5.25"L, plastic sleeve is 5.75"W x 7.25"L, combined weight is U6.

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