Selasa, 28 Februari 2017

A Carte de Visite of Billy the Kid

Copied from the legendary tintype, this image sold at auction last June for $15,000. Biographers of William H. Bonney have long suspected that his tintype—the rarest, most sought-after and representative image of the Wild West—was commercialized after his death on July 14, 1881. Researchers scoured the country, but no contemporary copy of the tintype had …

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