Curious Set of Three Real Photo Postcards of (Jesse) James-Younger Gang Members carved ball in cage Plus wonderfully detailed tiny nose

Plus wonderfully detailed tiny nose

10” wide

filled front and back

perhaps referencing the Nootka crisis of 1789

Curious Set of Three Real Photo Postcards of (Jesse) James-Younger Gang Members carved ball in cage Plus wonderfully detailed tiny noseCurious. I found these three real photo postcards together, and believe they date to the 1940s or so, while featuring photos taken in the late 1870s I believe. Depicted are members of the notorious James Younger gang, American outlaws lead by Jesse James and his brother Frank, active in that incarnation from the late 1860s until 1876, when the Younger brothers were captured in Minnesota during the unsuccessful attempt to rob the Northfield First