New photographs of Philly The Kid recommend he could have lived in Philly – NBC10 Philadelphia

Two newly found images of Billy The Kid, the notorious western gunslinger, recommend he could have lived in Philadelphia when he was a baby.

According to Lee M Fox, proprietor of Fox Auctions, the invention of those photos are bringing some perception into Billy The Kid‘s younger years, which had been a thriller — till now.

There are information that present Billy’s mom, Catherine McCarty, lived in Philadelphia between 1863 and 1867, and it seems, one of many two just lately found photos of Billy was additionally taken in Philadelphia, suggesting that Billy could have lived together with his mom throughout that point.

Fox mentioned one of many two new photographs has info on the again of it, indicating that it was taken at “WM. W. Seeler’s Photo-Miniature and Photograph Gallery” situated on eighth and Spring Garden Streets in Philly.

“This is a historical discovery that fills in crucial missing western provenance and has great potential to be the new most valuable historic imagery of the American West,” Fox mentioned in a launch.

Fox additionally mentioned that the 2 new images, which present Billy The Kid as a younger grownup and a baby, can be going up for public sale on April 25, 2026 at 1 p.m. in Pitman, New Jersey and on-line through this website.

In June 2011, William I. Koch, a billionaire, purchased the one authenticated {photograph} of Billy the Kid at public sale for $2.3 million, essentially the most ever paid for a historic picture of the American West. But Fox mentioned he believes the public sale of the 2 new images will surpass that quantity.