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[Photograph 2012.201.B0969.0825]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. OHS note: This is likely a photograph of five Sisters of Mercy nuns who arrived by train in the territory in 1884 from Lacon, Illinois. The Sisters were met by Father Isidore Robot and Brother Dominic Lambert from the Sacred Heart Mission and some Native American scouts. Information source: "Tenacious Monks" by Joseph F. Murphy, a priest from St. Gregory’s College.
Date: 1884
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.B0232.0241]

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.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.B0232.0244]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Swearingen's photograph long outlived this early banking institution whish was organized overnight as a self constituted firm that folded soon afterwards. Outdoor salesmen such as the operating near the bank appear in many of the young photographer's pictures."
Date: May 14, 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0240]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "There was very little that the young photographer missed as he lugged his heavy camera and plates around Guthrie to make his photographic record. This is the U. S. Land Office and a detail of troops from the company sent to marshal the run."
Date: May 27, 1889
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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