Curious Set of Three Real Photo Postcards of (Jesse) James-Younger Gang Members carved ball in cage perhaps referencing the Nootka crisis

perhaps referencing the Nootka crisis of 1789

I didn't think too much about this small hand-stitched Pennsylvania doll quilt when I scooped it

10” wide

A cool thing

as there is a label still visible on the interior of the box

Curious Set of Three Real Photo Postcards of (Jesse) James-Younger Gang Members carved ball in cage perhaps referencing the Nootka crisisCurious. 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