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[Photograph 2012.201.B0388.0331]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This photograph of the Boomer leaders was taken in 1884. They are, from left (seated), A. C. McCord, David L. Payne, W. L. Couch, (standing) H. H. Stafford, G. F. Goodrich, and A. P. Lewis. Payne was principal leader of the movement."
Date: 1884
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1030.0694]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "William Prettyman was an early-day photographer from Kansas. This is a copy of an original photo of his horse, claim flag, and stake during the opening of the Cherokee Strip to white settlers in Oklahoma Territory, Sept. 16, 1893."
Date: September 16, 1893
Creator: Prettyman, William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1361.0362]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dick West, alias Little Dick, was killed April 7, 1898, by Marshals Tilghman, Rhinehart and Fossett. Last of the Doolin gang to die, after Doolin's death he organized with Frank and Al Jennings and Pat O'Malley (tape covering name, ? Morris) what was later known as the Jennings gang. Note pine board slab, and his long slender fingers. He was one of few men in the Southwest who could shoot accurately with either hand. (Surro… more
Date: April 7, 1898
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0182]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "the realism of Swearingen's photograph of the entertainers at the club Theatre takes much of the romantic glamour from Hollywood's version of western theatres but detracts nothing form the interest in this rare picture. The company included five men, three women and two child performers, a bull fiddle player, two violinists, a cornetist a trombonist and a drummer. Footlights were seven shielded kerosene lamps."
Date: 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0196]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "At the time this picture was taken (1890) they could shoot deer almost anywhere east of town," writes George Tipton, Guthrie banker, who owns the above photo. The hunters hung their game before his father's meat market, L. P. Tipton, his father , is in the white apron to the right."
Date: 1890
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0241]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Guthrie's first brick building was not long in taking shape and by May, when Swearingen returned to the town the National Bank Block had its first occupants: Grant Stanley, Lawyer, Whitley-Orput loans and investments and the McNeal Little Banking Company. Even in 1889 everyone liked to "mug the camera" even if it meant stopping work."
Date: 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0437]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wilson Smithen, state president of Jaycees; the Rev. Billy Graham; Harold Stansberry, executive vice president of the Capital Hill Chamber of Commerce; and Jim Johnson, president of the Capitol Hill Jaycees, stood together for this photograph taken when Graham was in Oklahoma City for his 1956 crusade."
Date: 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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