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Photos
John Henry “Doc” Holliday, 1872, age 21
This photo is said to be of Doc during his years as a young Texas
dentist, ca. 1875-76:
Note the blonde complexion in this unretouched photo. Compare
to his dental school graduation photo above.
Some of the photos of Doc in circulation are unauthenticated
and/or retouched. It is important to remember that journalists
thought little of altering photos during the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. Photos of Doc were sometimes altered or
retouched to make him appear more sinister.
 
This is the photo of Doc Holliday reportedly taken in Tombstone,
Arizona in early 1882:
Doc Holliday, ca. 1881-1882
Some question the validity of this photo based on the dark coloration (Doc was an ash blonde,
as can be seen above).
This photo has been lightly retouched to make the hair, eyebrows and
moustache darker and heavier, but the facial features (which, in
spite of the crease in the photo, can be seen clearly in this
front-facing portrait) are Doc's.
Kate Harony, age 16
Glenwood Hotel, site of Doc Holliday’s death
–1872 photo of Doc and the photos of
Kate and the Glenwood Hotel derived from Karen Holliday Tanner’s
biography, Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait (Univ. of Oklahoma
Press, 1998). Photo of Doc as a dentist courtesy and copyright
Gary Dunlap:
http://www.dochollidayphoto.com/story.html.
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