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Original cabinet card of Harry Beverley Postley with his horse, somewhere around San Mateo or Santa Barbara, California.
Signed and dated on the back:
"Going out tonight?Yours etcH.B. PostleyApril 20, 1879"
Postley was born in 1857, and died at a young age, in 1886. He was 22 in this photo. Just two months before this photo was taken, this was printed in a February, 1879 newspaper:
Harry B. Postley. who has been at Santa Barbara, Cal. for his health, is "doing" the State of California on horseback, and lately left for a thousand mile trip in the saddle from Santa Barbara to the Yosemite Valleyand back. ·
An 1880 census has him living in San Mateo, California, and lists his occupation as a "Capitalist".
Cabinet card is 6.5" x 4.25" and in very good antique condition.
![Santa Barbara California 1800s Photo ID\'d Man & Horse \](img-large/g/RBEAAOSwTp5gmFb9/s-l1600/Santa-Barbara-California-1800s-Photo-ID-d-Man-Hors.jpg "Santa Barbara California 1800s Photo ID\'d Man & Horse \")
