(CRIME) Olivant Harry; photographer Cabinet card of the late

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(CRIME.) Olivant, Harry; photographer. Cabinet card of the late Wild Bunch outlaw Tulsa Jack Blake and two friends. Albumen print, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches, laid down over another photograph on photographer's mount; crudely signed in negative by the photographer. Hennessey, OK, April 1895

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William "Tulsa Jack" Blake was a member of the Doolin-Dalton Gang, gunned down at his Oklahoma hideout in 1895. This well-known image of his corpse with the two deputies who killed him is on the original photographer's mount. with--a photograph of fellow Wild Bunch member Bill Raidler. Albumen print, 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, on contemporary card mount; faded, with moderate soiling and wear; captioned "Bill Raidler" on recto and "Dalton Gang" on verso. Np, nd.