Looking for just that (vintage photos of those machines) I happened upon something else, something with someone posing a real bandit -WITH a gun- from 1903 though -but a real person
-I think I'll be going with that instead.
Strange, isn't it: how googeling for images always brings up stuff you hadn't thought about in the first place.
[And:
that Lucky Luke album was the first thing that jumped to my mind on this theme
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