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[2012.201.B0223.0179]

Description: Photograph of a downtown street lined by tall buildings in Chicago, Illinois, used by a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. There are automobiles and cable cars in the street as well as pedestrians walking on the sidewalks. Caption: "Chicago's ban on parking in the 'loop', the heart of the city, was announced a complete success at the close of the first day's test."
Date: January 10, 1928
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0009]

Description: Caption: "Neither old age, long skirt or high buttoned collar deterred this proper lady from her game in 1900, just a few years after women took up the sport. Golf had been formerly been almost exclusively a gentleman's game."
Date: September 21, 1900
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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0174]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Except for a few hurriedly constructed frame buildings, Guthrie was for a considerable time, a city of tents. Signs on tents indicated law and land offices, lunch rooms and hotels, blacksmith shops and grocery stores. The tent city extended for some distance on both sides of the railroad tracks."
Date: April 27, 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0177]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "June 28, 1889 -- This picture ought to start some discussions among the old-timers. It's the Noble street bridge across Cottonwood creek, which divided east and west Guthrie. A concrete viaduct four blocks long is now located where this bridge stood. The viaduct passes over the creek and the Santa Fe."
Date: June 28, 1889
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0178]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "June 4, 1889 -- These citizens of a new land were interested in their governments. On election day there was no lack of attention, and every one turned out to vote. a large percentage of the city population is represented here."
Date: June 4, 1889
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.B0232.0188]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "GALA OCCASION -- Guthrie was less than three months old when this picture was taken at the first celebration, but it was then a city of more than 10,000 inhabitants as settlers lined a main street for this July 4 horse race."
Date: July 4, 1889
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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