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The picture is attached to a page on my business website as the easiest method to share the photo. The studio card measures 4.25 x 5.75. It is stored in a drawer in my home business office where it has been for the last dozen years. I bought the card at an antique gun market in Missoula, MT. The seller told me he purchased the assortment of old cabinet cards at an estate sale from an old-time sheriff. It makes sense that a sheriff would collect photos of outlaws and lawmen. If this was some random studio that decided to write in Billy the Kid on a random photo of a young man, they did a pretty good job of matching the signature. And, how would they have known what his signature would look like unless they had a copy of the letter to the NM governor. The card predates Adobe Photoshop. Maybe this card is another insight into Billy the Kid’s history.
The letter with signature is available online.
Studio Cards in collection click each for piture
Jesse James
Cole & Bob Younger with Frank & Jesse James
Belle Star
Black Bart
Rube Burrows (in casket)
Pretty Boy Floyd
John Wesly Hardin
John Ringo
Bonnie & Clyde (Bonnie pointing shotgun at Clyde)
Wild Bunch- - Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, Butch Cassidy, Bill Carver, Kid Curry
The Dalton Gang - the all Dead shot
Sam Bass, Frank Jackson, Seaborn Barnes
Alan Pinkerton - 1867
Doc Holiday
Bill Hickok, Texas Jack,Buffalo Bill Cody
Bill Hickok
Bat Masterson
Wyatt Earp
Virgil Earp
Harry Wheeler
Tom Smith-Abilene Marshal
Texas Rangers-James Thomas Bird & John J. Haynes - 1868
Ben Thompson
